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or ccrice areca-nuts»). Preserved in salt it is called yen-pin-lang (^ /^ |^
or «salted areca-nuts»). Small and pointed nuts are called M-sin-pm-lcmg
(^ ^Ij? ^^J ^ or «chicken heart areca-nuts»), large and flat ones ta-fu-td
(^ ^ -^ or «big bellies»).»^
"When chewed, these nuts have the effect of preventing eructation. In 5
San-fo-ts'i they make wine out of the juice.
«The Customs at Canton and Ts'iian-chou derive an annual revenue of
several tens of thousands of strings of cash from the trade carried on in this
products by foreign ships. But most of the product comes from Hai-nan. The
"fresh nuts» and the «salted nuts» come from there, whereas the M-sin and lo
the ta-fu-td varieties come mostly from Ma-i.
JSTotes.
1) Pin-lang is a transcription of the Malay name of the areca-palm (Areca catechu, L.)
pinang. Nan-fang-ts'au-mu-chnang, S,!* says that it comes from Lin-i {mR &. Southern Indo-
China) and that it is also caWei pin-mon-yau-tsim {^S P^ ^S "^g)