542 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Ch. XXXITI, 35 :—Sang shang hi sheng. Rude draw- 
ing. Probably a Loranthus is intended.—Jbid., XXXVI, 
24 :—SR BF AE Ui hi sheng. Rude drawing of a Viscum or 
Loranthus, said to grow on chestnut trees (22) in Yiin nan. 
Tatar., Cat., 44 :—Sang ki sheng. Viscum ?—The drug 
of this Chinese name which I obtained from a Peking drug- 
shop—yellow stems without leaves—and which was examined 
at Kew, proved to be the common Viscum album, L. 
P. Smirn, 150 :—Mistletoe, li hu. Liand hu are names 
for oaks. Evidently the characters ki sheng (parasites) are 
omitted in the above name. Lhid., 93:—Epiphytes. Ibid., 
282 :—Willow-Epiphyte, liu ki sheng. 
Heyry [ Chin. pl., 35, 392]:—Sang ki sheng in Hu pei, 
Loranthus Jadoviki, Sieb., and other species. These parasites, 
when they occur on the mulberry, are highly valued as 
drugs. 
Cust. Med., p. 360 :—Sang ki sheng exported 1885 from 
Canton 41.13 piculs. Same drug exported from Hankow. 
See Hank. Med., 35. 
Ibid., p. 286 (184) :—Ki sheng exported from Amoy 
14.23 piculs.—Jbid., 360 (282), tsa ki sheng (Viscum growing 
on various trees) exported from Canton 2.05 piculs. 
The Hank. Med. [25, 43] mentions the liu ki sheng 
[growing on willows] and the t‘ao ké sheng [on peach trees] 
as exported from Han kow. Both are noticed in the P. 
([XXXVIL 16, Lt. 
The propagation of the mistletoe by birds eating the 
fruit, as noticed by the Chinese authors, is also mentioned 
by THEopHRastus [de causis plant, 2, 17}. 
Phon zo, XCIII, 8, 9 :—%& AE, Viscum album. 
