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known as t‘u-tang-kuei, is supplied by Aralia cordata, Thunb. See 
Hanbury, “ Science Papers,” p- 260, and Porter Smith, “ Contr, Mat. 
Med. China,” p. 20. 
‘We find, from the Chinese Customs “ List of Medicines,” that there 
are exported annually from :— 
pene patent 7 in Chili ‘ ; , 451 piculs 
Chefoo : antung : BOs 
Thaker’ and H ankow, prodne he 
provinces of Hupes, Szechwan, ao ‘Shensi 123243 © ,, 
Some is also imported into Shanghai from Japan. 
‘The source of the drug from the Northern Provinces has not been: 
determined as yet. I found small cultivations of the drag in the 
mountainous regions of Hupeh, specimens of which were forwarded 
by me, Nos. 6897 and 7143. This plant is, at any rate, the source of 
the prea bulk of the drug exported from Ichang and Hankow. The 
root is 0, Oy oe in Sox! second year of growth, before the plant comes 
into flower 
Fig. 1, Ripe fruit, the mericarps et aie showing bipartite carpophore. 2. Trans- 
verse section of a mericarp. Enlarged 
