362 BOTANICON SsINICUM. 
distinguished. These are common plants in China. The — 
best sorts are produced in Shu (Sz ch‘uan). As the shi hu 
has a slender stem like a [Chinese] hair-pin it is also called 
BM AL | hin ch‘ai (gold hair-pin) shi hu. y 
Although the descriptions of the shi hu in the P. are 
vague and unsatisfactory, I agree with WILLIAMS [Did., 
233] that this name and the other synonyms are applied to 
orchidaceous plants. be 
Ch, XVI, 1, 2:—Shi hu. Two figures. The first 
seems to represent Dendrobium moniliforme, Swartz, and the 
other is a larger Orchid, with a jointed stem. 
Lour., Fl. cochin., 633 :—Ceraja simplicissima [Dendro- : 
bium, Benth. & Hook., Gen pl., III, 498]. Caule simplicissimo, ~ 
parasitico, erecto. Habitat in sylvis Cochinchine et Chine — 
rupibus ac arboribus inhwrens. Sinice: xe (shi) du In 
medicina sinensi utitur. OS ee 
EMAR., Cat,,.53:—Shi hu. Dendrobium Ceraja et sa be : 
ac lichenes variii—Gavarr [384] describes and figures Bere 
drug. He suggests that it may be the subterraneous ge : 
of a Graminea.—P, Smita, 85. a 
Henry, Chin, pl., 424, 539:—Shi hu. Dendrobium - 
nobile, Lindl. Exported from Sz ch‘uan as a drug unde: . 
the name of Ff 3}- ya tou, both the plants with still living : ; 
flowers and the young stems in a dried state. a 
Cust. Med., p. 80 (208, 200, 213):—Han kow expo rted cs 
1885 fresh #} 2} 121 piculs, & fp 2f 30 piculs, HEF 4 
8 piculs,—p. 60 (44), I chang HE 2} 14 piculs,—p- ee a 
(453), 3876 (487), Canton exported 4 3% fi} 30. piculs . 
Aa fi} 20 piculs,—p, 424 (145), shi hu exported from Pak = : 
hoi 18 piculs,—from Kiung chou 4 piculs. a 
The JK ff} was exported: p. 202 (279), from wee 
99 piculs,—p. 268 (141), from Takow 4.25 piculs,—p- a - 
(96), from Wen chow 2 piculs,—p, 288 (208), from Amey 4 
0.04 picul. 
