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having yellow flowers and a fruit like that oi Physalis alkckengi. 

 The fruit capsules of this tree are bladderlike, and contain 

 black seeds, the size of a small pea. The flowers are used for 

 dyeing yellow, the leaves for dyeing black, and the seeds are 

 made into beads. The seeds are called ;^ ^ •? (Mu-luan-tzii), 

 but at Peking they are miscalled %W^^ (Mu-lan-tzu), and 

 the tree /fc ^ :^ (Mu-lan-ya). The flowers are the parts used 

 in medicine, in epiphora and conjunctivitis. The drug seems 

 to be employed only as an eye medicine. 



KYLLINGIA MONOCEPHALA.— ^ ^ if (Chin-niu- 

 ts'ao), 155, is the identification of the Customs lists, but upon 

 what authority does not appear. The Hankow lists call this 

 Ardisia japonica^ which in Faber's list is ^ ^ -^ (Tzu-chin- 

 niu). What is spoken of under this term in the Pentsao does 

 not answer well to the description of Kyllingia^ or indeed of 

 any cyperaceous plant, but does approach that of a myrsinaceous 

 one. So its medicinal virtues will be mentioned in the Ad- 

 denda under the title of Ardisia. In Japan Kyllingia vio7ioceph- 

 ala is 7jC %. ^ (Shui-wu-kung), and in the Appendix to the 

 Pentsao is mentioned $^ $ii f^ (Wu-kung-p'ing), "centipede- 

 like duck-weed," which from the description is evidently a 

 sedge, and may be Kyllingia. Insects do not like the odor of 

 this plant, so it is dried and burned in bed-rooms and about 

 beds to produce a smoke, which is said to drive away all sorts 

 of parasitic insects. 



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