MATERIA MEDICA OF THE ANCIENT CHINESE. 515 
consists of four parts [comp. injra]. The people gather 
the bark of the tree and by boiling it prepare a bird-lime, 
The bark and the leaves are used in medicine. Another 
name for the tree is $f 4 iI] mao rh ts‘s' (cat-thorn), 
Ch, XXXII, 25 :—zx EX nit cheng or off fit la shu 
(wax~insect tree), Rude drawing. Probably a Ligustrum 
_ Ws intended.— 7p, XXXV, 51:—® FH tung ising. Rude 
drawing, Perhaps an Zlex is meant. The tung ts‘ing de- 
scribed in the P. is without doubt an Jlee, probably Ilex 
cornuta, Lindl. See also Kiu huang, LIV, ii. 
Tarar., Cat., 41 :—# EF} nit cheng. Rhus succedanea. 
This is an erroneous identification based upon an article on 
Chinese insect-wax, by Svan. JULIRN [1840], in which it is 
stated that, according to A. Broantart, the nit cheng is Rhus 
succedanea. This mistake is perpetuated in P. Surrx, 185. 
| __ Mist which I received from a Peking drap-shop under the 
Name of nti cheng consisted of the dried berries of a Ligustrum. 
In the Thibetan drug-shop at Peking the same berries were 
sold under the name of 48 5 tung ts‘ing. Under the same 
mame Ligustrum Ibota is cultivated at Peking. —TarTar., 
Cat., 22» Tung ts‘ing, Fructus Ligustri vulgaris —P. Suita, 
| 134, 229: — Tung ts‘ing, Ligustrum luctdum.—Haxs., Be. 
— Pp, 67,—Father Hrupe, S.J., informed me that m 
Mid China tung ts‘ing is a common name for Ligustrum 
| lucidum, Ait.—At New chwang tung ts‘ing is the —_ 
_ “mmonly given to the Mistletoe [Notes f Quer. on Chin. 
5 Jap., 1869, p. 175].—Hunay, Chin. ply 483 Oh FF tit 
«Hing ising shu in Ho pei is Xylosma racemosum, Miq. 
(order Biwinew), 
Cust. Med., p- 870 (404) :—Vii cheng tse‘ exported ie 
trom Canton 53.51 piculs,—p. 296 (821), from ua 30, 
Picul, Exported also from Han kow. See Hank. Me vy OUe 
