412 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
The Cust, Med. [ p. 146 (121) and 376 (493) ] notices a 
drug tien kui ts‘ as exported in small quantities from 
Shang hai and Canton, and in the Wank. Med. [44] it appears 
also as an article of export from Han kow. It is there 
arbitrarily identified with Pyrola. As has been stated above, 
tien k‘ui in the P. is given as a name for Basella and likewise 
for an Anemone. Not having seen the drug tien k‘ui of the 
Cust. Med., 1 am unable to say to what plant it may belong. 
So moku, 11, 70 :-—y¥ ¥¥, Basella rubra, L. 
Sres., Gcon., 119 :—Basella rubra. Japonice : Tsuru 
murasaki. Sinice : ¥ 3E. Baccee tinctoriw. 
259.— Fk ts‘. P., XXVII, 24. y ye 99.8 3 
Pie lu:—Ts‘i. Leaves used in medicine. They are 
slightly poisonous. Taste pungent. When eaten to excess 
they cause shortness of breath. 
Su Kone [7th cent.]:—The ts‘i ts‘ai (vegetable) grows 
in damp, shady places in the mountains. Sometimes it 
creeps. Leaves like those of buckwheat, but fat (succulent). 
The stem is of a purplish red colour. The people of Shan nan 
[S. Shen si, App. 268] and Kiang tso [An hui and Kiang 76 
App. 124] eat it raw as a salad. In Kuan chung [Shen $1, 
App. 158] they call it BH 2E tsi ts‘ai (pickled or salted 
vegetable).—The Kuang ya [ard cent.] gives $f ¢su as a 
synonym for ts‘i, 
Han Pao-suene (10th cent.]:—Stem and leaves are ofa 
purplish red colour. When in flower the plant has a fetid 
smell. 
The Cheng Tstiao T’ung chi [12th cent.J, with respect 
to the ts‘, refers to Rh ya, 144 [this is an error. Comp. 
above, 106], and states that it is a twining plant with leaves 
like the hu tsiang (Betel pepper leaf’]. 
