Chen- siting , and the Sandal 
T l an-siang. * 
Page 77. Pekin-hoa ou Man-lan-hoa , fleurs 
de Callistephus sinensis. The Chinese Aster 
(Callistephus) is called ^gj Ku-hua in 
Chinese books and this name is known 
throughout the whole Empire. But there 
are numerous varieties with different local 
names. 
Page 80. Lan-hua , fleurs d' Olea fragrans . — 
Olea fragrans is known to the Chinese as 
/jtj: 'P& ^ M ^ ua Peking as well as in 
Southern China (Cf. Bridgman’s Chrestom. p- 
455, Grosier III. p. 22.) But ||| ^|7 Lan- 
hua is applied to different Orchideae (at Pe- 
king to Cymbidium). 
Page 85. Yen-tchi-hoa , c’est a dire fleur 
qui sent la nuit, racines du Mirabilis Jalapa. 
• — Mirabilis Jalapa is indeed called ?||j| 
Yen-chi-hua (in Chi-fa, v. Bridgman’s 
Chrest. p. 454) at Canton, but the Chinese 
characters mean “cosmetic grease.” — 
Ye-lai-siang (fragrancy coming in 
the night) is Pergularia odoratissima ( Ch. 
XXX. p. 13 ). 
Page 87. Nin-fo-tze , is Buck-wheat ac- 
cording to M. D. As far as I know Buck- 
wheat is : M Niao-mai in Chinese 
books as well as in the popular language 
throughout the whole Empire (Bridgman’s 
Chrest. p. 447). 
Page 89. Yo-hoan-tze—Myristica moshata. 
— The only Chinese name for Nutmeg , I 
know, is Jou-tou-kou (Cf. Ta- 
tarinov 1. c. p. 64. Dr. Williams’ Commercial 
Guide). 
Page 92. Lien-tze , fruits du Chataigner. 
The name of the Chestnut is 52. — jf-* Li- 
tsu. 
Page 100. Tho-ya=semences d’ Orge, 
Hordeum hexastichon. The Chinese name 
of Barley is Ta-mai (v. s). 
Page 101 Kin-tsao-che , tiges, et semences 
du Sorghum Saccharatum . — Such a name for 
Sorgho does not exist I think, in China. 
* The Pen-tsao (XXXIV. 28) explains the 
name Chen-sitmg (Fragrancy sinking under 
the water) by the heaviness of the wood. Li- 
shi-chen states, tha t th e Sanscrit name of the 
wood is jfm jjl lffi A-kia-nie. The third 
character may be a misprint, for the Sanscrit 
name of Aloe-wood is Agaru (Amarakocha 1. c. 
p, 166.)— G-arop: heavy in Sanscrit. 
Page 24. La resine d’une espece de pin,, 
originaire du Thibet nomine Pe-go-song 
est employQdans tout le Nord de la Chine. — 
|£l| J|i Po-kuo-sung is at Peking the 
popular name for Pinus Bungeana , a splen- 
did Pine with white bark. It is met with 
everywhere in the neighbourhood of Peking. 
As far as I know this tree is not a native of 
Thibet, and has not been detected elsewhere 
than in the neighbourhood of Peking. 
What M. D. means by Ka-lo-kiang 
(encens male) and Yun-hiang (encens fe- 
melle) page 65, I am not able to state. The 
Chinese name for Olibanum is Ju- 
siang. 
Page 93. Chou-tsao, tiges feuillees et som- 
mites fleuries du Cannabis sativa. Les pre- 
parations med. prennent le nom Homing - 
yeou , c’est-a-dire dans le dialecte du Fokien, 
faisant oublier le chagrin ou la douleur. M. 
D. believes, that the word Huang is derived 
from the Egyptian or Persian “ bengh.” 
1 hese names quoted as Chinese names of 
Hemp and its preparations, I can nowhere 
find in the Pen-ts‘ao, but his Houaug-yeou is 
probably Huang-yao (yellow med- 
icine,) whilst "g j ^ Wang-yu-ts i ao 
(meaning make forgotten sorrow) is given 
in the Ch. W. ( XI V 42 ) as a synonym of 
H ip. Suan-ts'-ao , Hemerocallis graminea 
according to Tatarinov. 
LIST OF CHINESE WORKS, QUOTED 
IN THE FOREGOING NOTES. 
As the greater part of these works cannot 
be found in Wylie’s Notes on Chinese Liter- 
ature, the information regarding them has 
been derived from an examination of the 
Ssu-h'-u-ts'-uan-shu , the 
great Catalogue of the Imperial Library 
1790. I hereby give only the title, the 
author’s names and the time of publication. 
All these works treating of Materia medica, 
Botany, Geography, History &c., are often 
quoted in the Pen-ts‘ao and in other Chinese 
Botanical works. 
Works, written before the third century B. C. 
L 1$ ]Sk ^ J|£ $5 Shen-nung-pen - 
t9 l ao-king. Classical herbal, or Materia med- 
ica of the Emperor Shen-nung. 2700 B. C. 
2. kjT ijg Shu-king. Book of History, 
compiled by Xung-fu-tsu 
(Confucius) about 500 B. C. from the his- 
torical remains of the time of Emperor Yao 
(24th century B. C.), the -LT JJi a dynasty 
