404. BOTANICON SINICUM. 
prickly and black when ripe. The seeds resemble millet, are 
edible and also fit for fermenting wine. This plant is also 
called #3 JB Auai feng and 3; ji) kuang feng. The people 
of Mou ling [in Shen si, App. 225] call it jifi # BH Lien chi 
ts‘ao. In the Kin kuang ming king (a Buddhist book) itis 
termed 3€ #4 FJ 3 sa-bi-li-ka. 
Ch. III, 56, and Kiuw huang, LVIII, 34:—Mu m 
Rude drawings, but probably Medicago sativa is intended. 
The description in the P. agrees in a general way. M. sativa, 
the common Lucerne in Europe, has generally purple or violet 
flowers, but sometimes they are yellow. At Peking mu % 
is M. sativa, with violet flowers ; it is not cultivated there, but 
is common in the neighbourhood. Father Davip [ Journ, I, 
64] saw it cultivated in Southern Chi li. : 
Tatar., Cat., 40 :—Mu su. Medicago sativa.—P. Smit, 
145:—Mu su, M. radiata. But this species is not known 
from China, 
Mu su is not Chinese but most probably a foreign name. 
As to the Sanscrit name, sa-bi-li-ka [v. supra], I may 
observe that Burnes mentions, among the grasses cultivated 
for cattle in Kabul, the Trifolium giganteum, called sibargs, 
and the Medicago sativa, called vishka [Baurour, Cyclop. gq | 
India}. ee 
So moku, XIV, 14 :— BF 38, Medicago denticulata, Willd. 
Yellow flowers. Known also from China. 3 
Phon zo, XLVIL1, 16 :—Same Chinese name applied © 
M. denticulata and M. lupulina, | 
256.—%a; hien. P., XXVII,9. 7., LXI. 
Comp. Rh ya, 107. 
Pen king:— | %& hien shi (fruit). Seeds, leaves and 
root officinal. Taste of the seeds sweet. Nature cold. Non- 
poisonous. The leayes are a nourishing vegetable, 
