MATERIA MEDICA OF THE ANCIENT CHINESE. 441 
Cust. Med., p. 106 (127):—K‘ien shi exported 1885 
from Wu hu 2,787 piculs,—p. 128 (113), from Chin kiang 
1,172 piculs,—p. 90 (59), from Kiu kiang 7.36 piculs,— 
p. 80 (121), from Tien tsin 4 piculs. 
Further particulars in another part. 
298.— B& 3 wu yi. Tubers of Scirpus tuberosus, Roxb. 
Py) SARE, 29, cP, OXIV. 
Comp. 2h ya, 59. 
Pie lu:—The wu yii [black Colocasia. See 261], also 
called $8 && tsie ku, has leaves like the ytt (Colocasia). The 
root is gathered on the 3rd day of the 3rd month and dried, 
in the sun. 
Ia Sut-cuen observes that the Pie lu is mistaker, in 
identifying the wu yii with the tse ku, for the latter is the 
ts‘z* ku or Sagittaria [sce the neat], whilst the wu ye, called 
tlso Hy BE ti LU (ground chestnut) and HF pi ‘ts, is a 
quite different plant the leaves of which do no’; resemble 
those of the yi, The tubers of the wu yi are er.ten and ane 
used in medicine. 
Comp. P. Smrru, 92:—Lleocharis tub erosa. — Further 
particulars in another part. / 
299.—#E fii isie ku in the Pie lu [gee 298]. P., XXXII, 
31, sub 8% HR ts‘2¢ ku. 7, CXIV. 
These are the tubers of Sagittaria, See P. Sita, 189. 
Further particulars in another part. 
300.—f5 po. Thuja orientalis, L, Po. X&SIY, 1. 
#., COUT, 
Comp. Rh ya, 225, Classics, 505. 
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