MATERIA MEDICA OF THE ANCIENT CHINESE. 439 
growing in Nan fang (Southern China) and containing a sweet 
juice. The medical quality ascribed to it is that of preventing 
the developement of intestinal worms.—Sz ma SIANG JU 
[t B.C. 126] in one of his poems alludes to the property of 
the juice of the kan che of dissipating intoxication occasioned 
by wine. 
In the Nan tu fu, a poem written by Caanc Hene 
[A.D, 78-139] the sugar-cane is termed wi BE chu che, and 
under the same name it is mentioned in the Shuo wen. 
Further particulars in another part. 
295.—3i #8 lien ou. Nelumbium speciosum. The Lotus. 
P., XXXII, 16. 7, XCIL. 
Comp. Rh ya, 90-104, 191, Classics, 395. 
Pen king :—Lien ou (#§ ou is the name for the root), 
3 BF lien shi (fruit) and | #€ Wen heng (stalks). 
Pie lu:—The #8 FF HE ou shi heng grows in Ju nan 
[in Ho nan, App. 110] in ponds and marshes. It is gathered 
in the 8th month. 
Tavar., Cat., 34 :—FH FE lien hua, Nelumbium, | 3% 
lien si, Stamina Nelumbii speciosi, | [i lien fang, Car- 
Pophorum Nelumbii speciosi—Ibid., 6 :—#if # ho ye, Folia 
Nelumbii speciosi.—Ibid., 42 :— 3 $j ou tsie. Articuli radicis 
Nelumbii, and [41] $8 BP ou fen. Amylum radicis Nelumbit. 
Hans., Sc. pap., 240 :—3i FF lien tsz’. Nuts of Nelum- 
bium speciosum. ; 
P. Sur, 139 :—Lotus. 
Cust. Med., p. 30 (112):—Lien si (Lotus-stamens) 
*xported 1885 from Tien tsin 69 piculs,—p. 74 (116), from 
Han kow 38 piculs,—p. 128 (105), from Chin Kiang 14 
piculs, 
