482 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
mentioned in Huai nan tsz‘,—lien, the tree of the 7th month. a 
The people of Ch‘u [Hu kuang, App. 24] are accustomed 
to hold a festival on the 5th day of the 5th month in ‘ 
commemoration of K*ii Yiian’s suicide [B.C. 314]. Bamboo- 
sprouts and rice-cakes enveloped in the leaves of the lien, < 
with silken thread of five colours tied around, are cast into 
the river to propitiate the water-spirits. The women put — 
len leaves in their hair, ete.’ According to the Feng su 
“ung [2nd cent.] the phoenix and the unicorn eat the lien, 
but the dragon abhors it. 
Li Sut-cuen :—The lien tree grows very rapidly. In 
three or four years it is fit for beams. The fruit resembles 
around jujube. The best is produced in Sz ch‘uan. 
Ch, XXXII, 45 :—Lien. Good drawing representing | 
a Melia. The description in the P. agrees. 
Lour., Fl. cochin., 329 :—Melia azedarach, L. Sinice: 
wun (shun) lien, 
Briam., Chrest., 441 (44) :—Melia, Pride of India, at 
Canton #% 7 shen mu or Ty Be k'u lien. Same identification - 
in ParKer’s Canton plants [169]. 
Tarvar., Cat., 34 :—i Hit Ven shu. Arbor ?—Ibid., 
15 :—J]] RF Chuan lien tse (lien from Sz ch‘uan) and | 
[59] :-— Hk F hin lin tse’ [the second character is a mistake : 
for $R ling]. Both drugs are identified with Fructus Mespilt 
japonice.—Gavcnr, 54 :—Chuan lien tsz‘. The fruit figured 
and described. Gavaer means it is a Diospyros. 
The drugs which ] obtained under the names of Ch‘uan— 
lien tsz* and kin ling tse‘ from a Chinese drug-shop : 
Peking were, undoubtedly, the dried fruits of a Mela, 
yellowish brown ; five-celled stony endocarp. But the 
Ch‘uan lien [in Thibetan barura] sold in the Thibetan 
-™ This is taken from the 144 hiai ki or Record of Marvels, 5th cent. 
