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
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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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    182 China is very rich in orchids. In our days one of the most favorite of them among the Chinese in the south is the i'll 7E t/ao (suspended) lan hua, called also H l ,fen9 (air) lan, the Aerides odorata of Loureiro, FI. cochin., 642.—Bridgm., Chin. Clirest., p. 452 (5).—Amcen. exot., 864 :—Fa ran, cum icone. [ V. infra, sub 202]. The Cast. Med. [p. 160 (319)] notices 30 piculs of MltiM lan hua mi, classed among seeds, as imported to Shang hai. Ibid., p. 152 (201) :—||ff pei lan ye (lan leaves worn on the girdle) exported from Shang hai 1.15 picul. Said to come from Sz ch‘uan. Ibid., p. 194 (163) :—The same imported to Xing po 1.10 picul. Ibid., 360 (283):—Tse lan exported 1885 from Canton 22 piculs,—p. 288 (222), from Amoy 5 piculs. The figures of the lan tslao and the tse lan tslao, in the Ch. [XY, i and 13], seem both to be intended for species of Eupatorium, order of Compositce. Dr. Hance states that in S. China Eupatorium stcechadosmum is cultivated on account of the fragrance of its flowers. See Ind. FI. sin., J, 405. In Japan the Chinese names ^ j|t and Jjp J||j are both applied to Eupatorium. For particulars see Dot. sin., II, 405. 63.—^ Hf hiang ju. F., XIV5, 81. T., CL. Fie lu :—Only the name hiang (fragrant) ju and medical properties noticed. It seems the leaves are officinal. T‘ao Hung-king :—It is commonly eaten raw as a vegetable. It is also gathered in the 10th month and dried. O o The Shi liao Pen tslao [7th cent.] calls it ^ hiang jou and ^ hiang jung,