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Ming, 1 which states that "now it occurs everywhere." Li Si-Sen says 

 that it is cultivated in southern China and to a larger extent in Se- 

 'wan. Wan Si-mou 3: ifr S, who died in 1591, in his Hio pu tsa $u 

 ^ HI $1 0S, a work on horticulture in one chapter, 2 mentions an espe- 

 cially large and excellent variety of this bean from Yun-nan. This is 

 also referred to in the old edition of the Gazetteer of Yun-nan Province 

 (Kiu Yun-nan fun Si) and in the Gazetteer of the Prefecture of Mun- 

 hwa in Yun-nan, where the synonyme nan tou 1M fit ("southern bean") 

 is added, as the flower turns its face toward the south. The New-Persian 

 name of the plant is bageld* 



1 Ci wu min Si t'u k'ao, Ch. 2, p. 142. BRETSCHNEIDER (Bot. Sin., pt. i, p. 52) 

 has recognized Vicia faba among the illustrations of this work. 



2 Cf. the Imperial Catalogue, Ch. 116, p. 37 b. 



3 SCHLIMMER, Terminologie, p. 562. Arabic bdqild. Finally, the Fan yi min yi tsi 

 (section 27) offers a Sanskrit term $fl fjfl wu-kia, "mwut-g'a, translated by hu tou 

 and explained as "a green bean." The corresponding Sanskrit word is mudga 

 (Phaseolus mungo), which the Tibetans have rendered as mon sran rdeu, the term 

 Mon alluding to the origin from northern India or Himalayan regions (Mem. Soc. 

 finno-ougrienne, Vol. XI, p. 96). The Persians have borrowed the Indian word in the 

 form mung, which is based on the Indian vernacular munga or mungu (as in Singha- 

 lese; Pali mugga). Phaseolus mungo is peculiar to India, and is mentioned in Vedic 

 literature (MACDONELL and KEITH, Vedic Index, Vol. II, p. 166). 



