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Tai Ho. Hills (? in rere Fart 0 0 lat, 33° 10, long..115° 43’), has a 
somewhat slender stalk somewhat over a chih (about 14 inches) c 
The root is like that of the Se kage (Chrysanthemum coronarium* ? 
those of the ngai (Artemisia a bal but have the same odour. 
When triturated they crumble to dust at once, and do not make a soft 
mass holding together like the leaves of the ngai when similarly treated. 
The Taoists use them to make up prescriptions. Doctors administer 
them boiled in water for female complaints and for colds in men. (?). 
B.—Nons obtained from various sources on the subject of Ngai Camphor, 
The ai, Vases Ta ice — €—— NM is a plant which grows 
pretty well over the angsi nnan, and Kweichow Provinoes, but 
the choicest ‘Guility i is mp sd at a place called Ta Kang Fow, about 
32 miles (100 /7) from Yünnan Fu, the capital city of Yünnan. 
Processes of preparatio 
arge pan or disons is filled with water, and a tin or can 
without a lid set upright in it. This tin has a small aperture beneath, 
into which is fitted a metal tube. The plant is put into the tin, and a 
the n - its way, and tii ns 
sec -the “ 
has n h! ii in it, and, with £i v cene treated as before. The 
product is called a? Yen ( (or * ai flour ” wder 
. The “at powder” is treated according to the first of the three 
processos, and the essence thus distilled is the fragrant ai yu, or 
oil.” 
C.—The following account was given by a Chinese’ dealer from 
Kwangsi, who came to Pakhoi in E: 1893, to Chen-Sien-Sheng, 
Her Majesty Consulate's Chinese w 
Small ngai is otherwise called é ‘Sth month ngai,” and * duck’s foot 
ngai,’ the Pen-ts’ao calls it ngai, also “ white 7 aee p (Artemisia 
kc lath ). 
ngai, vulgar name “ : greatluck , Pie in the’ Petas it is 
called ** 1000-year ngai ^ (Blumea 
(Signed) M. F. A. Fraser. 
Pakhoi, Dec. 1893. ; 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 
1. Capitulum. 2. Femalefloret. 3. Disk floret. 4. Seta of pappus. 
5. Anthers. 6. Stigma. Enlarged. 
a E by Giles. See Brettschneider, Botanicon Sinicum, 1892, p. 253 
(No. 4 
T m roseis, p.77. Apparently Pyrethrum indicum. : 
A 2 
ai dew” is pu xil ito ctr o6 B Bis | 
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