414 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Su Kone [7th cent.]:—This plant resembles the wan tou 
(common pea) but it is longer and coarser. It is gathered 
as food, and has the smell of beans. The mountain people 
call it BEF lu tou (deer bean). 
Han Pao-suena [10th cent.]:—The Ju tow can be eaten 
raw. The leaves are gathered in the 5th and 6th months and 
dried in the sun. Mentioned in the RA ya. 
[i Sut-cuen :—The lu tou is the same as the BF ee TL ye 
(wild) la tow ' Phaseolus Mungo. Bot. sin., 11, 356}. It is 
also called X8 GF lao tou. It is frequently met with in wheat- 
fields. In its leaves it resembles the lit tou [v. supra] but is 
smaller and a twining plant. It is eaten both raw and 
cooked. It blossoms in the third month. Flowers pale 
purple. The fruit is a small pod with seeds as large as the 
tsiao [ Zanthoaylon Bungeanum] and black. T hey can be eaten 
boiled, or they are ground into meal from which cakes are 
made. 
On, Ab eT Faro, The drawing represents a 
leguminous plant with trifoliate leaves, 
So moku, XTII, 33 :—#E ¥, Rhynchosia volubilis, Lour., 
Fl. cochin., 562, a leguminous plant. 
261.—3E yi. P., AAV, 91... 7. LIL 
Pie lu:— Ya or +E & tu chi. The seeds and the leaves 
with the stem are officinal. The seeds are said to be slightly 
poisonous. 
Ya or Ui yt t‘ou are names applied to several tnd 
of Colocasia cultivated for their edible roots, viz. Colocasia 
antiquorum, Schott. (Arum Colocasia, L.), Colocasia esculenta, 
Schott. (Arwm esculentum, L.), Colocasia indica, Kth. (Arum 
indicum, 1.) and others. 
In the Shuo wen the character yu is written yi.—In 
the Kuang ya [8rd cent.] it is said that the stalks of the 
