MATERIA MEDICA OF THE ANCIENT CHINESE. 521 
_ seandens.] Sinice: u kia pi. Caule scandente, aculeato, 
foliis 5 Jobatis. Usus corticis in scabie et in hydrope. 
Tatar., Cat., 64:—Wu kia p'i. Cortex Aralie palmate. 
—Gaverr [53]:—The same drug described and figured.— 
P. Sura, 20. 
Henry, Chin. pl., 529:—Wu hia pi, Eleutherococeus 
Henryi, Oliv., and E. leucorrhizus, Oliv. Shrabs which 
grow on the cliffs at Pa tung. The root-bark is used asa 
drug, the former being distinguished as the red kind and 
the latter as the white kind. The drug is exported from 
Sz ch‘uan. Henry says:—The figure of wu kia p% given 
in the Ch. may be intended for Eleutherococeus Henryi or 
may be Acanthopanaa spinosum, Miq., which occurs at I chang 
and is called by the same native name. 
Cust. Med., p. 28 (92):—Wu kia pt exported 1885 
from Tien tsin 123.86 piculs,—p. 10 (83), from New chwang 
9117 piculs,—p. 48 (47), from Chefoo 55 piculs,—p. 72 
(82), from Han kow 27.53 piculs,—p. 194 (158), from 
Ning po 13 piculs. 
Amen. exot., 177 :—3, Hj kooki, vulgo kuko, aliis num 
gussuri. Ligustrum spinosum, etc. According to THUNBERG 
[f. Jap.; 94] this is Lyctum barbarum. But the Uliness 
hame given by Kxmprer is wrong. The plant to which it 
belongs is the #219 fio, vulgo dara. Frutex sylvestris 
_ arborescens spinis horridus, ete. 
Kwa wi, 89:— Fe fm, Acanthopanax spinosum, Mig. 
(Aralia pentaphylla, Thbg.).—According to Horr. & 
 Scurr, [403] Panax divaricatum (Acanthopanax divaricatum, 
8&2) in Japan is known by the same Chinese name. 
Phon zo, LXXXIX, 2, 3:—3 MM. Acanthopanaz 
spinosum, Japonice: koka. Ibid. 1, 2:—H Im, Panae 
sessilijlorum, Rupr. & Max. 
i 518. 
™ Character erroneously applied to this plant. Comp. Bot. sim, i, 
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