INTO THE FLORA OF CHINA. 
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in PAIL1 S’ notable work EEISEJf BUECH 
VEES€H. PRO¥imEl BES XtUSSI- 
S€HEH EE1CSES, 1768—1773. Iu the 3d. volume 
Pallas details some natural products sold in the streets of the 
Chinese market town Maimaieheng, opposite Kiakhta, which 
place he visited in 1772. Most of these fruits and vegetables, 
brought for the greater part from Peking, were completely un¬ 
known to him, but he describes them and adds the Chinese or 
Mongol names. As it may be presumed, that hardly any 
botanist, not acquainted with the native names of North-China 
and Mongol names of plants, would be able to ascertain what 
fruits are enumerated in Pallas’ account, I venture to make 
some brief commentary on it. 
Small green Peas, called', fo don, which Pallas correctly identi¬ 
fies with Phaseolus radiatus. L. See above Linn. Chin. pi. 74. 
Arbuzes, Pears, Apples, called -pinsa and resembling green 
Rennet apples. 
Watermelons (Arbuz in Russian) are cultivated in Transbaicalia, but 
no edible pears or apples are grown in Southern Siberia. p*in t.sz’ 
in Peking is a small dark-red Apple, j 
Oblong Quinces, called mugha. 
Cydonia sinensis. Thouin. Sin: mu+Tmq,v The fruits of this 
are brought to Peking from the province of Shantung. They are oblong 
and often of enormous size. 
Lemons, sweet and acid Oranges , Walnuts, Chestnuts, called 
lidsa. 
Castanea vesca li tsz\ 
• Small red Medlars, Mespilus fructu obtuse pentagono, ruber- 
rimo. These are said to grow wild in North-China. The 
Chinese boil them with sugar and thus make a kind of Jam. 
An excellent J am is prepared in Peking from the fruit of Crataegus 
•pinnutiftda. Bge. 
The fruit Alema is the fruit of the tree Ahasfiu, an Apple 
tree of Southern-China. 
Alema is the Mongol name for Apple. It seems that the other name is 
a corruption of Jfc sha kuo shu, Apple tree. S'ha kuo at Peking 
is a small red-cheeked Apple. 
Pallas saw also a most curious kind of Citron, splitting into 
12 fingerlike divisions. It is devoid of pulp and seeds, but is 
very fragrant. The Chinese called it Fui shu. 
Citrus Chirocarpa . Lour. PI. coch. 568. Sin: / frfy ^ fo show. 
Small fruit of a kind of FUaeagnus with a peculiar stone. 
The Bukhara call it dshigde, the Mongols zagda, the Chinese 
sazusa. 
