' BT4 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
212.—E HA yi po. P., XXI,9. 7, CLXIIL a 
Pie lu:—YVit po (jade Thuja), also TE HE yt sui. Tt . 
grows on stones and resembles a pine tree. It is only from 
five to six inches high, and has purple flowers. The leaves. : 
and the stem are used in medicine. Taste sour. Nature . 
warm. Non-poisonous. 
It Sai-cagn:—This is a small kind of shi sung — 
[v. infra]. The people gather it and keep it in basins, Min: : : 
it’ lives for many years, whence the names FF tH isen 
men po (thousand years Thuja) or Pi Sf FS wan nien sung 
(ten thousand years pine). 
Regarding the 7 HE shi sung (stone pine) Ca‘ : 4 
Ts‘ane-KT [8th cent.] states:—It is a plant from one . 
to two feet high, resembling a pine tree, which grows in a 
the mountains of Tsien t‘aj [in Che kiang, App. 340]. The 
mountain people use the root and the stem [as a medicine].— 
Lt Sat-cuen adds :—It is a large kind of kéan po. 
Ch., AVI, 42 -— Wang nien po and [43] wan nien sung. — 
Rude drawings, but they seem to be intended for Lycopodium. 
—Ibid., XVII, 3 :—s7; sung. 
Cust. Med., P. 878 (497):—Wan nien sung exported — 
1885 from Canton 3.14 piculs,—p. 302 (435), from Amy 
0.03 picul. 
Ct. Aven [Journ. in the Int. of China, 1816, 1811, 
P- 220] notices a Lycopodium, cultivated and spontaneous, ; 
the Canton province, which might perhaps be best compared 
to a fir tree en miniature.—R. Fortune [ Wand., 845 Tea 
Count., 8; Res. am. Chin., 80] met on the hills of Hong 
Kong a curious dwarf Lycopodium which takes the very 
form. of . dwarf tree en miniature, He saw it also in Hong 
Kong gardens. The Chinese, who prize it highly, call # 
