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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    Su Sung [11th cent.]:—The plant is cultivated but rarely in the north. It resembles the pai su \Perilla. See 67] but the leaves are smaller. It is produced in Shou ch‘un and Sin an [both in Che kiang, App. 291, 310]. There is one kind which is called a l l slii hieing ju. It grows on rocks, is slender, of a yellow colour, pungent and fragrant and much valued. K;ou Tsung-SHI [12th cent.]:—The hiang ju grows wild in the mountains of North and South King Hu [Hu nan, App. 147]. In Pien and Lo [both in Ho nan, App. 248, 201] the people cultivate it in gardens and eat it as a vegetable during the hot season. o o Li Shi-CHEN :—There are the wild-growing liiang ju and the cultivated one. The latter is called mm hiang ts‘ai (fragrant vegetable). There is a large-leaved and a small- leaved sort, the first is the best. The plant has a square stem, incised leaves like the liuang king ( Vitex) but smaller. In the 9th month purple flowers in spikes, followed by small seeds. There is one sort with more slender leaves like those of the lo chou (Koeliia) and which grows only a few inches high. This is the shi hiang ju. Another name for the hiang ju is ^ Jp mi feng ts‘ao (bee plant). Ch., XXV, 32: — Hiang ju. Representation of a Lahiata, probably Elsholtzia. Tatar., Cat., 46 :—Hiang ju, Elsholtzia cristata. This is a common plant in the Peking mountains. Debeaux [Flor. Shang hai, 48, Tien tsin, 36] saw it cultivated in Chinese gardens.—P. Smith, 94. Oust. Med., p. 80 (202) :—Hiang ju exported 1885 from Han kow 173 piculs,—p. 374 (464), from Canton 31 piculs,—p. 92 (84), from Kiu kiang 31 piculs,—p. 300 (390), from Amoy 8 piculs. S'o moku, XI, 16 Elsholtzia cristata, Willd,