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Meantime, as the tree is of iderable commercial importance ; highly 
valued in Chinese materia medica, it iiss cade Epairrv to call 
beation’ to it in ‘Icones Plantarum 
The most singular feature about the ere is the extraordinary abun- 
dance of an elastic gum in all the younger tissues—excepting perhaps 
the wood proper—in the bark (in the usual sense of the word), the 
leaves and Coat and pericarp; any of these snapped across, and the 
cells which give rise to this substance, we hope to have the oppor- 
tunity of describing from specimens in fluid or living, which, throngh 
Dr. Henry’s kind offices, there is probability we may soon receive. 
‘ : ‘a hibadl 
from inadequate data, in this place. ‘The bark,’ Dr. Henry, under 
No. 3182, — ‘is a most valued medicine with the Chinese, selling 
ad 
to be diminishing i in Szechwan, from which it chiefly comes, and t 
price has increased four- or fivefold. - Whether si bark has anf 
real medicinal properties I do wit know DY. as s the tree is 
figured in the ‘ Chih-wu-ming,’ xxxiii. 18, ‘but I fail 6 “identify it with 
the figure given under that citation in the copy of that work in the 
library of the Kew Herbarium. retschneider, in a letter to the 
Director, referring to the bark of this tree, 
tree from which it is derived is hem se to botanists. The — 
Chinese name given to it is “Tu chung.” In Japan this Chinesename 
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of its bark. . . . During the last twenty years the production pa E 
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tions towards the Materia Medica, &c., of China,’ p. 94, under - 
Euonymus japonicus, relate to the Chinese plant : '. The leaves of — 
this tree are eaten when young. The fruit is astringent. : 
was formerly used to make ey Tonic, invigorating, and arthngy 
properties are ascribed to the bark. 
It is with the bark of. Bucommia ulmoides that a roll of bark 
nd 
Monsieur I. Pierre, to whom the herbarium is indebted for so many 
valnable sei ai ee from Cochin-China and Cambodia, and who . 
agrees with me that it does not belong to the Parameria. (See 
Report on Royal Gardens, Kew, for 1881,’ p. 47.)—D. Oxiver. 
Fig. 1. Upper portion of fruit. 2. Longitudinal section of fruit 
cri of seed through radicle. 4, Same through Siieton er nabeyel 
