72 ‘ ON THE CH‘ING MUH HSIANG. 
aquatica, and Polygonum mite. Dag 
On the entomological peculiarities of the district I am scareely 
competent to pronounce. It is not considered a good one for butter- 
flie 
for the want of the perfect insects; but I hardly think it © 
will be found that any of the species I have enumerated as absent 
from the Leeds district are so because of the non-occurrence of insects 
whose particular mission it is to fertilise them. 
ON THE CH‘ING MUH HSIANG, OR ‘“‘GREEN PUTCHUK,” 
' OF THE CHINESE. 
Wirn some Remarks on THe Antrporat VIRTUES ASCRIBED TO 
A RISTOLOCHIE. 
; By H. F. Hance, Pu.D., &e. 
Amonest the drugs held in high estimation by the Chinese is one 
known by the names of Ch‘ing muh hsiang, or Tu ch‘ing muh hsiang, 
1.¢., “Green Putchuk,” or ‘Native Green Putchuk,” * derived from 
* Reps to be a good deal of obscurity and confusion about the 
names = this p “4 nes Rags eet to the first, Mr. Bowra states (Rep 
Trade |, p. 66 t ies of Ci i J 
R.Br are both. . Taal ) that a species of C meno ~ Rosa Banksia, 
e7 t uh hsiang, which i 
18 OF NO use as a medicine, so that it a: parently draws a distinction between the 
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a 
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3 
+, an rmina 
i d . Han (Notes on Chin. Mat, med,, 20) and Dr. 
Porter Smith (Contrib. Mat. med, China 22). But it is at least ier Ay For 
there is no decisiy believe, that thi i i 
gus e 
lipid. Boner ae sIn., p. 38, n. on ys 
a > un, . ann St . 
: Davus sum, non (Sdipus, Cannot solve these ultra-Sphingean 
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