540 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Pie lu:—The sang shang ki sheng grows on mulberry 
trees in Hung nung [in Ho nan, App 99] in river-valleys. 
The stem and the leaves are gathered on the 3rd day of the 
3rd month and dried in the shade. 
T‘ao Hune-xina :—This parasitic plant grows upon fir 
trees, the poplar and the feng tree (Liquidambar Formosana). 
It is the same kind on all these trees, only the roots differ 
according to the tree upon which the plant lives. These roots 
are embedded in the substance of the joints of the branches 
of the tree. Leaves roundish, greenish red, thick, glossy, 
easily broken and evergreen. They spring from the joints of 
the plant. It blossoms in the 4th month. White flowers. 
The fruit, which is produced in the 5th month, is of a red 
colour and of the size of a pea. It is common. The best 
drug comes from P‘eng ch‘eng [in Kiang su, App. 247]. 
It is commonly called Hi (Af su tuan. But this name in the 
Pen king is applied to a quite different plant [see 84, 
Dipsacus}. 
Su Kune [7th cent.]:—This plant grows upon the feng, 
the hu (oak) and upon elms, willows and other trees. The 
leaves are like small willow-leaves, but thick and easily broken. 
The stem is coarse and short, The fruit is yellow and 
resembles a small Jujube. There is one kind of this parasitic 
plant, growing in Kuo chou [in Ho nan, App. 173] on 
mulberry trees, the fruit of which contains a very viscid juice. — 
The kernel is of the size of a small pea. The fruit ripens in : 
the 9th month and is then of a yellow colour. It doesnot 
ripen in the 5th month, is not red and is not of the size of a 
small pea, as T‘ao Hunc-K1nq asserts, The people of Kiang 
nan employ the stem and call it sx twan [v. supra] which 1s 
properly the name of another plant. 
Han Pao-sueng [10th cent. ]:—This parasitic plant : 
grows on various trees. People say that it is propagated by 
