536 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
on some Tuberiform Vegetable Productions from China, in 
which the pe fu ling is determined as Pachyma Cocos, Fries, 
a Fungus-like substance. 
Hanpury, Se. pap., 267:—Good description of the 
Chinese drug fu ling :—Large, ponderous tuberiform bodies 
consisting internally of a compact mass of considerable hard- 
ness, varying in colour from cinnamon-brown to pure white. 
They are an altered state of the root of the tree, probably 
occasioned by the presence of a Fungus. It is the Pachyma 
Cocos, Fries, occurring in N. America, Japan and China. In 
America it is called “Indian Bread. ?—See also Hans., 
Se. pap., 200, where this drug is figured. 
P. Suir, 165 :— Pachyma Cocos.—Hunry, Chin. pl., 
478. 
Cust. Med., p. 66 (18):—Fu ling exported 1885 from 
Han kow, 13,149.45 piculs.—Jbid., p. 354 (184), fu ling pt 
(bark) from Canton 27.49 piculs,—p. 212 (48), from Wen 
chow 1.70 picul.—Ibid., p. 220 (25), fu shen imported to 
Foo chow 0.05 picul, from Hong kong. Said to be produced 
in Kuang tung, 
Amen. exot., 832 :— Sjooro (no Chinese characters ). 
Tubera esculenta, terrestria, sub abietibus crescentia.— 
THunserc [FU. jap., 349] identifies this with Lycoperdon 
Tuber, L. Fungus magnitudine pruni majoris. 
See in Phon zo [XCIII] the drawings, 2r, sub FY 4 3 
(white),—2v, Fe Ar (red),—3r, €K jit. 
351.— SE #4 hu p‘o. Amber. P., XXXVI, 7. 
Pie lu:—The hu p'o is produced in Yung ch'ang [in 
Yiin nan, App. 426]. 
