INTO THE FLORA OF CHINA. 
35 
I suppose, that by the medicinal herb Fen si described on 
the same page, the j$3| £* fang hi, Pen ts'ao XVIII b. 23, is 
/ meant. The Chinese plant of this name is however unknown 
to botanists. In Japan these characters denote Menispermum 
acutum. Thbg. 
Another medicinal plant Ti hoang, of the province of Honan, 
is mentioned on p. 26. This is Befimannia glntinosa. Lib. very 
common in the neighborhood of Peking, sin : fjfj ti huang. 
According to Cibot: Mem. cone. Chin. V. 498 the root of it 
yields a yellow dye. 
With respect to san tsi (p. 26.) see above the account given 
by Pather Parennin of this plant. 
The tree with long pods, tehang ho tse chu, Gassia fistula , in 
the province of Yunnan (I. 26.) J| HI -p |§f. 
Cannelle Ghinoise (Cassia bark) in the province of Quang si 
(I. 27.) v. supra Martini 21. 
The plant Tien, used as a blue dye (I. 27.) is Indigofer a 
tinctoria. L. sin: ||/£ lien. But Isatis indigotica has the same name. 
The Cotton plant (II. 147.) 
The hou chon is a tree, which has much the appear- 
0 ance of a fig tree. It contains a milky juice. Its leaves are 
divided into irregular lobes. The juice is used by gilders 
(II. 148.) 
This is Broussonetia papyrifera. Vent, in Chinese fit 
hu shu or ffj cJiu. Hu Halde does not mention the principal 
use of this tree in China, a very strong paper being manufac¬ 
tured from its bark. 
On the same page a much detailed but very obscure desrip- 
tion is given of a tree called lung ju gu, the fruit of which has 
a peculiar stone containing an almond-like kernel. It seems to 
me that the first syllable of the name is wrong and we should 
read hia ju tsz', which according to Boym is the Chinese name 
for Anacardium occidentale. 
Mo lien, a large tree with large deciduous leaves. It puts 
forth its conspicuous lily-like flowers before the leaves; some 
trees have red, others white or yellow flowers (II. 149.) 
*51 mu lien or * w mu lan is the Chinese name for 
Magnolia obovata. Thbg. 
Lamoe, a tree with opposite leaves and yellow, very fragrant 
0 flowers, which the tree puts forth in winter (II. 149.) 
Chlmonanthns fragrans. Lindl. v. supra Semedo. 12. 
Ou tong chu (II. 149). Sterculiaplatanifolia. Cav. v. supra 
Le Comte 9, 
