MATERIA MEDICA. OF THE ANCIENT CHINESR. 491 
have been described and figured in Hans. Se. pap., 238. 
Hanpury means that they belong to a Dialium (Leguminose). 
It seems to me that this is the same tree as that of which 
Baton in 1875 described [ Journ. Soc. cent. Mhortic., p. 
164-168] the pods received from Shang hai, and upon 
which he established the new species Gymnocladus chinensis. 
These pods are stated there to be used as soap by the 
Chinese. 
Leaves and ripe pods of the fei tsao tree were procured 
for me from Wu hu by Mr. T. L. Buxtock, in 1881, and 
sent to the Botan. Garden, St. Petersburg. The late 
Maximowicz considered them to belong to a Cesalpinia. But 
in the Ind. FI. sin. [I, 203] the Chinese soap tree, fei tsao, is 
said to be Gymnocladus chinensis. Mr. Hemsiey determined 
it probably from complete specimens in flower and in fruit. 
Comp. also Henry, Chin. pl., 500. 
P. Suir, 1 :—Acacia concinna. Fei tsao kia. 
Cust. Med., p. 198 (200):—Fei tsao exported 1885 from 
Ning po 56.20 piculs,—p. 366 (352), from Canton 0.50 
Picul.—Exported also from Han kow. See Hank. Med., 13. 
326,—8% BE luan hua. P., XXXV,15. T., CCOVILL 
See Classics, 550. 
Pen king :—Luan hua. The flowers are officinal. Taste 
bitter. Nature cold. N on-poisonous. ; 
Pie lu:—The lwan hua grows in Han chung [S. Shen Sl, 
App. 54] in river-valleys. The flowers are gathered in the 
5th month, 
Su Kune [7th cent.]:—The leaves of this tree ee, 
those of the mu kin [Hibiscus syriacus. Bee Pree ‘} oy 
are thinner and smaller, Yellow flowers resembling the hua 
