474. BOTANICON SINICUM. 
has kernels. The fruit is gathered in the 7th or 8th month 
and is of a sweet pleasant taste. 
Ch. XXXII, 30:— Hou p‘o. The figure represents 
only leaves. A Magnolia may be intended.—See also 
XXXVITI, 4, tu (native) how p‘o. 
Tatar., Cat., 8:—Hou p‘o. Cortex ? 
Hans., Sc. pap., 266 :—How puh, a rough, thick bark of 
a bitterish pungent aromatic taste. Magnolia hypoleuca, 
8. & Z—For this identification Hanpory relies upon Horrm. 
& Scuxr., 355. He does not mention the colour of the bark. 
The drug how p‘o obtained from a Peking druggist’s shop was 
of a reddish brown colour.—-P, Smirx, 142. 
Father A. Davin [1869] states [ Nouv. Arch. Mus. d Hist. 
nat., IX, Bull. 28] that the Chinese in Sz ch‘uan cultivate 
Magnolias not for the flowers but for the bark of the trees, 
which is much prized by the Chinese as a medicine. They 
call it ho po. In his Journ. trois. voyage Emp. Chin. (LU, 360] 
the same author notices that in. 1873 he saw in Kiang si a 
splendid plantation of a Magnolia with very large leaves, the 
same as he had previously met with in Sz ch‘uan. It much - 
resembled the American M. macrophylla. The bark is soldat 
very high prices as a medicine, o. 
Panker [Chin. Rev., XI, 22] mentions the drug hou p® 
in Sz ch‘uan. 
Henry, Chin. pl., 120 :—Hou po, Magnolia sp. nova,” 
the bark of which is a famous Chinese drug, largely exported 
from Sz ch‘uan. Two varieties, one with red and the other 
with white flowers, are cultivated in the mountains of the 
Pa tung district. The leaves are very large. This seems 
to be the tree figured in Ch. [XX XVIII, 4] with the name 
” The LHou-p'o tree of Hupeh iusbad out at Kew to be Magnolia 
ee, S. & Z., and not a new species, as was at first supposed.— 
