486 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Trank and branches are all of a green colour. Leaves like 
the head of a spoon, large and not shining. It bears neither 
flowers nor seed. The root resembles that of the hua 
(Sophora). The popular name of this tree is EY 4% 7K pai 
(white) sin mu. 
Lit Sat-cuey explains that the name # KK isin pt 
refers to the country of Ts‘in [Shen si], where the tree 
grows. 
Ch., XXXIIT, 31:—7s‘in pd. The figure represents a 
tree, but the drawing is not characteristic. 
Tatar., Cat., 138:— Ts‘in pi. Cortex. This drag, 
obtained from a Peking druggist’s shop, was sent to Professor 
Fiickicer for examination. An infusion of the bark mixed 
with iron produced indeed an ink, but it was not blue. 
The name k‘u li is applied in the Peking mountains to 
Fraxinus Bungeana, DC., upon which the wax insect lives. 
Cust. Med., p- 284 (186) :—T7stin pt exported 1885 
from Amoy 0.22 picul,—p. 148 (151), imported to Shang hai 
145 piculs,—p. 352 (180), to Canton 118 piculs. Said to 
be shipped from Han kow, Ning po and Tien tsin.—In the 
Hank. Med. the drug ts‘in p‘t is not mentioned. 
Horrm. & Scutr., 250:—# HE til, Frazinus longicuspis, 3 
8S. & Z. According to Grerrs the same Chinese name is e 
also applied to Fr, Sieboldii, Bl. : : 
Phon zo, UXXXIII, 17, 18:—Same Chinese name 
Tree not identified by Francner. 
Marsumura, 82 —#S, Pravinus pubinervis, Bl. 
324.—2 fix ho huan. P., AeA, 3. Ty COXCVL 
Pen king:—Ho huan. This tree grows in Yii chou : 
[Ho nan, App. 413] in mountain-valleys. It resembles the 
