2Q6 SlNO-lRANICA 



55 Jtt (Japanese nume-goma or aka-goma), Linum perenne, and Japanese 

 matsuba-ninjin or matsuba-nade&ko, Linum possarioides. 1 FORBES and 

 HEMSLEY, 2 moreover, enumerate Linum nutans for Kan-su, and L. 

 stelleroides for Ci-li, San-tun, Manchuria, and the Korean Archipelago. 

 In northern China, Linum sativum (San-si hu ma tfj 15 iK Jfit ) is 

 cultivated for the oil of its seeds. 3 



1 MATSUMURA, Nos. 1837, 1838; STUART, Chinese Materia Medica, p. 242. 



2 Journal Linnean Soc., Vol. XXIII, p. 95. 



8 This species is figured and described in the i wu min Si t'u k'ao. 



