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also a small block of Zizyphus vulgaris, ed the same locality, 
and two other engraved blocks from Fukien, namely, huang li 
or Red Pear, which is probably Purus betulefolia, and pai li or 
White Pear, which so far cannot be identified. It is improbable 
that it is furnished by a ws of Pyr » and may, perhaps, be 
furnished by a species of Tilia. 
With the exception of the small Non, seal, it is interesting 
to note that all the other examples ved or prepared for 
engraving either on the tangential a Sd pides of the wood. 
With European engravers ex transverse surface is always the one 
engraved. The Museum contains several Indian stamps. or 
designs for printing cotton Er each of which is cut on the 
transverse surface. None of the Chinese blocks seem to be of 
specially selected wood, a excepting perhaps the Boxwood, to 
be adapted for fine engraving. 
he Chinese word mu Ne wood: shu means tree. The tu 
chung determined by Professor Oliver to be Hucommia ulmoides is 
a native of mountainous distriets in Hupeh and Szechuan. Th 
same name is applied apparently to a tree of the plains which is 
anaes gore! a Euonymus. It is very improbable that the 
ood of Eucommia is used for printing blocks at all: the 
identification i is probably a gos E from the name tu chung 
being applied to two different tr The engraved block sent by 
of Euonymus. It is possibly identical with pai ch’a used largely 
at Ningpo for carving (see Kew Report, 1878, pp. 41, 42), which 
is now identified with Euonymus hamiltonianus, Wa U. 1i 
possible also that the wood supposed to belong to Sapium sebi- 
ferum is the same thing. 
DCLXIV.—LUNGAN PULP. 
Mr. Consul nnd in his Report on the Trade of Tainan, 
Formosa, for the year 1896 [ Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, 
No. 2,021] draws attention to this substance in the following 
words :—* per is the fruit popularly known as the * dragon's 
“eye.” It is prepared in the form of a pulp by E and 
“ stoning de fruit and una and baking it,and is u he 
* Chinese as tea.” Specimens of the fruit of the qu n or 
Longan (Nephelium Angan Cambess.) were already in the 
meer collection, but the fruit pulp prepared in the way 
Tainan 
prepared pulp. This was accordingly done, specimens being 
received on September 9th, 1898, from Mr. Ernest A. Griffiths, 
Acting Consul, Tainan, together with a memorandum on the 
subject by the Rev. William Racial, F.R.G.S., Presbyterian 
M at Tainan, written at the request of Mr. Griffiths, and 
which the following notes are gathered : — 
u dried Lung-ngan or Geng-Geng, which is largely exported 
from An-péng, the port of Tainan, is described as the longan fruit 
(Nephelium Longana). On page 105 of Douglas’ Amoy-Vernacular 
