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large quantities of the root of the wild-growing plants being every- 
where in the r 
low price. am inclined to think, then, that most of the t‘ang-shén 
exported from Hankow and Ichang is the root of m 68 here 
‘There is a drug, ming-t‘ang, produced in Anhwei (export from 
Wuku 60 tons yearly) and in Kiangsu (export from Chinkiang of 
16 tons annually), but specimens of the plant producing it have not 
been obtained. It will probably turn out to be an Adenophora.’— 
A. Henry. 
Fig. 1. Flower, after removal of calyx-segments and corolla. 
