416 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Pie lu:—Other names : Ji ¥2 mo lo, He FA chung siang, 
HS 348 45 chung feng hua, Hit YE kiang ki and 3% J swan nao. 
The po ho grows in King chou {Hu kuang, App. 146] in 
mountain-valleys. The root is gathered in the 2nd and 8th 
months and dried in the shade. 
Wu Pu [ard cent. |:—Other names: FE UB chung mu 
and Ht fé chung t‘ing. 
T‘ao Hune-Kine@ :—The po ho is also called Bit ff, kang 
ch‘ou. It is a common plant in Mid China. ‘The root 
resembles the hu suan [foreign or great garlic. See 244). 
It consists of a great number of flat pieces collected together. 
It is much used as food by the people, steamed or boiled. 
It is believed that the po ho is produced by the metamorphosis 
of a conglomeration of earth-worms. 
Po ho [the Chinese name means “a hundred pieces 
together ”] is the name applied in China and Japan to 
several lilies, the bulbs of which, formed by large, fleshy 
scales, are used as food. At Peking Lilium tigrinum, Ker., 
is called po ho. 
SACHS, Cok. 1 Po ho, Bulbus Lilit tégrin’. -GAUGER 
[7] describes and figures these scales.—P. Surru, 134, sub 
Lilium candidum.—Henry, Chin. pl., 857, 58 :—At I chang 
the cultivated po ho is L, tigrinum, the wild-growing po /o 
is L. Brownii and other species, 
Cust. Med., p. 78 (169) :—Po ho exported 1885 from 
Han kow 1,491 piculs,—p. 280 (93), from Amoy 4.66 piculs, 
—p- 348 (121), 386 (625), from Canton, fresh or dried 
bulbs, or bulbs ground into powder, about 80 piculs. 
Further particulars in another part. 
264.— 25 Bf ku hu. P., XXVIII, 6. 7, XLVIL 
Comp. Classics, 384, 
