148 ON CUDRANIA TRILOBA AND ITS USES IN CHINA. 
leaves. Another writer says that the nu-ché is like the ché, but 
smaller; and that its leaves, which resemble those of the tsoh, but 
are not so large, are used for feeding silkworms.’ 
Both the ché and the nu-ché, according to the ‘ Pen-tsao-kang-mu,’ 
have medicinal properties, but it is needless to. quote here the 
detailed instructions for adminis istering preparations of them to 
women troubled with one one flatulence, &e. 
M. Isid e report * published in 1848, says 
follows, quoting paisley ret a ME torre from the ‘ eel 
leaves, rough to the touch, and in outline round terminating in a 
point ; the branches bear spines, whence it is sormnebatri called the 
tsé-tsang, or thorny mulberry. The fruit, called Kia, resembles 
pepper. The leaves of the tché tree are alternate and numerous. 
The stem is slender and straight. The leaves are thick. An 
interval of a year must be allowed between two gatherings of 
leaves, otherwise they would contain properties noxious to the 
ae 
hé tree grows everywhere in the north. Its wood is 
ae aad solid. Its bark is covered with fine serrated lines which 
bear a great number of white spines. Its leaves resemble those of 
the mulberry, but they are smaller and thinner. Their colour is 
of a pale yellow; the extremity is triangular. They are excellent 
for feeding silkworms. There is a variety of the tché tree, called 
the nou-tché.” 
The two 3 are also figured in the ‘Chi-wu-ming,’ vol. 
xxxy., which I have examined at the British Museum, folio 46 
being a drawing of the ché and folio 27 of the nu-ché. Both 
drawings are very repeat in their rendering of the various 
forms of leaves, and a comparison with my specimens of Cudrania 
triloba shows beyond cdoubt that both represent this species. It is 
stated briefly in the Chinese text that the ché leaves can be used as 
form, or nu-ché, i all shrub. This latter is said to grow 
in Kiangsi Province, hing prickles and large triangular leaves. 
The plates in the i-wu-ming’ show very little difference 
between the ché acid the nu-ché, exec that the latter has spines 
and it may be inferred from the annexed descriptions that the ché 
is cultivated, since cm nu- met is spoken of as a wild biripe i 
triloba are some taken from tw 
small trees (male and fomais) helt with thousands of the ordinary 
native trees and shrubs, had been set out by the Foreign Municipal 
Council of Shanghai along their main suburban road. The leaves 
of these are larger and thicker than in the wild specimens, and are 
generally entire, though with slight lobings near the tips of a few, 
and with all the other varieties of form which characterise the 
species. Mr. Carruthers, who has examined all my specimens, is 
** Description methodique des produits divers receuillis dans un voyage en 
Chins,” par Isidore Hedde. Chambre de Commerce, St. Etienne, 1848. 
