Collected Illustrations of the Three Powers, Volume 10: Herbs and Trees 8

The character "Yi" (乙) acts as a signature mark, used by traditional printers to help binders keep the pages in the correct sequence.

Collected Illustrations of the Three Powers

Compiled by Wang Siyi (style name Yunming Fu) of Yunjian

Wang Siyi was the son of the primary author, Wang Qi. "Yunjian" is an ancient name for the region of Songjiang, near modern-day Shanghai.

Herbs and Trees: Volume 8, Tree Species


Pepper	Nagi	Yellow Medicine	Southern Candle	Silver Vine	Southern Vine
Honey Locust	Chinaberry	Oak Foliage	Catalpa	Black Cardamom	Chinese Fir
Myrobalan	Toona and Ailanthus	White Poplar	Oak	Buckthorn	Elderberry
Croton	Star Anise	Betel Nut	Photinia	Coconut	Goldenrain Tree

original: "椒" (Jiao) - refers here to the Sichuan Pepper; "訶梨勒" (Helile) - a transliteration of the Sanskrit Haritaki, reflecting the influence of Buddhist medicine; "接骨木" (Jiegumu) - literally "the wood that knits bones," known in English as Elderberry; "椿樗" (Chunchu) - a pairing of the Toona and the Ailanthus, often used in Chinese literature to represent the useful and the useless.

Three PowersThe "Three Powers" (Sancai) refers to Heaven, Earth, and Humanity. This encyclopedia attempted to categorize all knowledge belonging to these three realms.

Tree SpeciesIn traditional Chinese botany, plants were often categorized by their physical form—herbs (caobut) vs. woody trees (mulei)—rather than modern genetic relationships.