238 NOTES ON CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA. 



iseoea. 9E ^ jgf Fe-tsami-tcno ; Dialium sp.? (Leguminosce). 



These are smooth, black seeds (Fig. 5), f of an inch in 

 diameter, of a compressed spherical form, each furnished (when 

 perfect) with a large, rigid, persistent podosperm. A transverse 

 section shows a pair of plane cotyledons, between the flat 

 sides of which and the thick and hard testa, lies a layer of 

 black, horny albumen. 



Of the origin and application of this drug I have no infor- 

 mation. 



${ ^S -^p Che-Jceu-tsze ; Fruits of Hovenia dulcis, Thunb. 

 (Ehamne(K\ Sicku ; Ksempfer, Amoen. 808, 9 ; Pun-tsaou, Fig. 684 



The curiously- contorted,, fleshy, fruit-bearing peduncle is 

 edible, and said to have the flavour of pears. It is used in 

 China and Japan to diminish the effects of an excess of wine. 



FIG. 5. (The figure in the centre shows the transverse section of a seed slightly magnified. ) 



Hae-kin-sha ; Spores of a Fern (Filices) ; Pun- 

 tsaou, Fig. 325 ; Cleyer. Med. Simp. No. 173. 



A light, mobile, rufous-brown powder, which, when thrown 

 into the air and ignited, burns like lycopodium, for which 

 substance it might be substituted. 



Cttrusfiuea. ^ ^ Che-Jctih ; Dried Fruits of Citrus fusca, Lour. (Auran- 

 tiacece), Flor. Cochinch. ed. Willd. 571. 



My specimen of this drug consists of the fruit cut into 

 halves and dried ; in this state it forms circular discs of from 

 one to two inches in diameter, nearly flat on the cut side, convex 

 on the exterior. The peel is firm and excessively thick, being 

 about half the diameter of the dried pulp : externally it is 

 rough and of a deep blackish-brown, internally of pale buff. 

 It is bitter and agreeably aromatic. 





