536 BOTANICO SINICUM. 
Small fruit of the size of a jujube-stone. It is commonly 
called #] si tsz‘ (small fruit). - be root resembles that of . 
Piwonia moutan, The lower portio of the stem is placed in 
hot ashes, when the bark becomes loose and can be worked — 
into pencil-holders. 
Ch., XXII, 42, 43 :— Yung tao. Two figures represent 
ing herbaceous plants. ae 
Lr Sui-cury :—The yang t'ao has a stem of the thicknes 
of a finger, is tree-like but weak and creeping. Leaves as 
large as the palm of the hand, green on the upper side, 
white and downy underneath, resembling the ch‘u md — 
(Behmeria nivea) leaves but round. The branches when — 
steeped in water become viscid. “0 
Cust. Med., p. 364 (320) :— Yang tao hua (flowers) — 
exported 1885 from Canton 9 piculs,—p. 326 (159), from — 
Swatow 4 piculs,—~p, 362 (286), from Canton yang tao ye s 
(leaves) 0.10 picul.—'The compilers of the Cust. fed. 
identify yang t‘ao with Averrhoa Carambola, but this is 3 
mistake, which has already been pointed out in Bot. sins II, 3 
493, | 
Phon zo, XXXI, 8 :—3% bk. The drawing represents # 
creeper with large red flowers. Not identified by FraNcu®t. 
189.—§ F lo shi. P., XVI), 38. 1, COXXXIX. 
Pen king :—Lo shi. The stem and the leaves are officinal. 
Taste bitter. Nature warm, Non-poisonous. me 
— Pie lu:—Other names: AG fh WR shi lung teng, Bi a 
hitan shi, 3 BR yin chu, We Ay lio shi, GR A ling shi, Wy A 
oe shi, Fy $F shi te'o. The lo shi grows in T’ai shart 
[in Shan tung, App. 822] in river-yalleys, also on rocks 
tc . i C os 
the high mountains, in shady places, and near dwelling 
(cultivated). It is gathered in the Sth month. 
