Botanicon Sinicum: notes on Chinese botany from native and Western sources. Part 3, Botanical investigations into the materia medica of the ancient Chinese / [E. Bretschneider].

Emil Bretschneider

Date:: 1895

Credit: Botanicon Sinicum: notes on Chinese botany from native and Western sources. Part 3, Botanical investigations into the materia medica of the ancient Chinese / [E. Bretschneider]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$between the leaves. The root resembles that of the si sin \_Asarum. See 40] but is of a black colour, bitter and poisonous. It is dug up in the 2nd month and dried in tbe sun. Li Shi-chen adds that tbe plant is also called Ip $3 ^ dicing rh si sin. Chang rh (= deer’s ear) refers to tbe shape of the leaves. Ch., VIII, 29 :—Ki hi. Representation of a plant with leaves in accordance with the above description. So moku, II, 49 :—Chloranthus serratus, Roem. & Sell.—DC. Prodr. [XVI, i, 475]. Caule simplici ultra- pedali herbaceo .... foliis 4 approximatis .... See also Kwa wi, 12. Sieb., Iron, ined., VII:—Tricercandra quadrifolia, A. Gray. (Same as Chloranthus japonicus, Sieb.), known also from China. 43.—% V® sii diang Ping. P., XIII, 57. 7., CLXXI. Pen king:—Sii dicing Ping, 5^ e? Ilf) hid tu yu. The root is officinal. Taste pungent and bitter. Nature uniform. Non-poisonous. As Li Shi-chen explains, Sii CPang Ping is properly the name of a man, a physician in whose memory the plant was named. In the Index of the Pen Icing we find besides sii dicing Ping also a name of a plant VJ s^i hia dicing Ping, which name seems to refer to its growing beneath (among) stones. Some ancient authors consider it identical with the sii diang Ping, others say it is a distinct plant. Pie hi:—The sii dicing Ping grows on the T‘ai shan mountain [in Shan tung, App. 322], also in Lung si [in Kan su, App. 210]. It is dug up in the 3rd month. The shi Ida dlang Ping grows likewise in Lung si, in marshes.$