520 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
The root resembles that of the King [Viter. See 349]. 
The bark is yellowish black, the flesh (inner bark) is white, 
and the bone (the centre of the stem) is hard. There are 
several sorts. The drug from Pien king [in Ho nan, App. 
248] and Pei ti [App. 245] is large and flat, resembles the 
Ts‘in p‘i [see 323] and the huang po [Evodia. See 315], 
is of a white colour, odourless and tasteless. It is noted as 
a cure for rheumatic complaints——In Wu [Kiang su, App. 
389] the people strip off the bark of the root of the wild 
ch‘un tree (Cedrela) and call it wu kia. It is soft and 
tasteless. One sort, which grows in Kiang and Huai, is 
called 58 il 8 chui feng shi. Steeped in wine it cures 
rheumatism. In K‘i chou [in Hu pei, App. 121] the wu hia 
is called Aq PP mu ku (tree bone). 
Li Sut-cuen :—The name 3 jy wu kia means “five 
[leaves] united.” The name is also written Ff f§ wu Ma. 
It is sometimes also called 3 7G wu hua (five flowers). : 
The people in Shu (Sz ch‘uan) term it £4 il] pai ts‘z‘ (white 
spine) and also 4 2% BE wen chang ts‘ao. Li SHI-CHEN 
quotes a memoir in praise of the wine prepared from the 
wen chang. In the Sien king (a Taoist work) it is called 
& BB kin yen. The wu kia in spring shoots forth young 
twigs from the old branches. The mountain people eat them 
as a vegetable. It is like the kou ki [Lycitum. See 345]. 
The wu kia which grows in the north, in a sandy soil, is 
a tree, whilst that produced in South China, in a hard soil, is 
an herbaceous plant. In the T‘ang period the drug wu ka 
Was presented as tribute from Hia chou [in Hu pei, App. 64]. 
Ch. XXXII, 24:—Wu kia pt. Representation of @ 
spiny climbing plant with digitate leaves and fruits in 
umbels, 
Lour., Fl. cochin., 233:—Aralia palmata. (In DC. 
Prodr. (1V, 264) Lovreino’s plant is referred to Iedera : 
