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Lt Surt-cHen :—The ts‘i has a frouzy ® smell, and is 
therefore also called #% JE EX yit sing ts‘ao (plant having the 
odour of fish). The leaves resemble those of the hang 
[Limnanthemum. See Classics, 399], are three-horned (heart- 
shaped), red on one side and green on the other. The 
plant is good for feeding pigs. 
Ch. IV, 9:—Ts% ts‘ai or ya sing ts‘ai. The drawing 
represents Lfouttuynia cordata, Thbg. Henry, Chin. ply 
560 :-—YVii sing ts‘ai in Hu pei is Houtiuynia cordata. 
So moku, Il, 17:—#€E 28, Llouttuynia cordata, Thbg. 
Fi. jap., 234, tab. 26. Order of Piperacee. A common 
plant in China and Japan. It it the H. fwtida of Loupon 
and the Polypara cochinchinensis, Lour., Fl. cochin., 78. In- 
ter olera in acetariis edulis. 
The plant is figured under the above Chinese name in 
Sten. Zcon. ined. (VIEL 
SIEB, (£con., 8 :— Houtiuynia cordata. Japonice : 
dokudame. Sinice: i 28. Pro fomentatione in doloribus 
rheumaticis. 
In the Gardener’s Chron. [1882, II, p. 438] it is stated 
that the flowers of this plant exhale a “boiled snake-” like 
perfume, 
260.—}§ BF lu huo. P., XXVII, 27. T., XXXVIL 
Comp. Rh ya, 96. 
Pen king :—ILu huo (deer bean):—Apparently the leaves 
ind the seeds are officinal. Taste bitter. Nature uniform. 
Non-poisonous, 
Pie lu :—The lu huo grows in Wen shan [in Sz ch‘uan, 
App. 388] in mountain-valleys. : 
Tao Hune-K1no :—This drug is not used now in medicine. 
Lu luo is also another name for the ko plant [ Pachyrhizus. 
See 174). 
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