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•' The specimens sent include both wild and cultivated plants 

 from the same neighbourhood ; but my native collector thinks 

 that the wild specimens are only escapes from cultivation. In the 

 mountains, which I visited, all around Mengtse, I never met with 

 this form of Aralia growing wild. 



"InHupeh and Szechwan I found in the mountains growing 

 wild several forms of Aralia of the section Ginseng, to which the 

 natives gave the name of San-ch'i, and these forms were referred 

 at Kew to Aralia rjuinqnefolia, Planch, et Decne., and Aralia 

 repens, Maxim., but it is possible they may all belong to only one 

 species. Aralia hipinnaUtida, C. B. Clarke, also occurred, but 

 only m the highest parts of the mountains ; and it seems to be a 

 well-marked distinct species. No cultivation of San-chH occurs 

 in Hupeh or Szechwan ; and the rhizomes of these wild plants 

 were of no value commercially. Shan-yeh, leaves of a Panax, 

 exported from Hankow as a drug, is however derived from these 

 wild forms, but it is of no importance, the quantity in commerce 

 bemg most trifling. 



" It is remarkable that Ginseng and San-chH, perhaps the two 

 most esteemed drugs in China, one occurring in the extreme north, 

 the other m the south, should be so closely allied botanically. 



"With regard to the name San-chH, while it is primarily given 

 to the Kwangsi-Yunnan drug, yet several other plants are often 

 spoken of under the name of San-chH or fu-san-chH. These 

 plants are cultivated in pots and are of no particular value as 

 ^^diciiies in ^he eyes of the Chinese. They ai-e Gynura pinnati- 

 j\n ^'-^^..y,^ Aizoon, Linn., and in Formosa, also, Panax 



" Augustine Henry. 



^^^'^''^f.^^'i'^^^^^'^-^y^-^^^-^ growth to reach the right age for 

 PMni' Tv!' f T? '% *^' '^"'^ ^^ ^""^^^ America, Japan and 

 bhina. Ihe plant is always grown from seed, and the first leaves 

 of the seedlings may be much more cut than those of the mature 

 plants. This is especially the case in var. notoginsenq, and in it 

 the very young rhizome probably produces two or three shoots in 

 the farst year. 



..1 w^- ^.?* demand which has caused so much extinction of the 

 plant 111 the United States has caused the same in Asia. In the 

 time of Jartoux it seemed to occur nearer Pekin than now 

 l^Knrt'n f' ^'' wl'^^ i^'""- ^''•' ^- 1^)- Legislation has been 

 resorted to in both places. In North Amedca the State of 

 bZl.n T'^'t P^^i^l *^^^ ^^ ^i^«eng should be dug 

 between March L^ and September 15; in Canada the law 

 if:'rr\'^M'''Y^''' P^nod to extend from January 1 t^ 

 Jrnlt^^J ^^°*^'' ^"^' ^'"^ ^^ ^«^^« elsewhere. In Corea^ ( fid^ 

 describP« t'l-?''''^"^ may be sold before a certain date, akd he 

 describes the way m which the wild roots are sought for 

 of Ch^i\1ll? '' -^^^ :-T': ^^ ««^*i^^ i« ^«* dfssimilar to that 

 i?^\^illZ'Z^^ i\^^'^' n^^*^*^ "^ parenchymatous 

 Btor c^vs^S tI «t^"f "re fleshy ; in the pith and elsewhere are 

 Biar crjstajs. ihe outer tissue of the bark is torn and full of 



