Rhubarb

IMG:p494_2.png:Chinese characters huang. The best rhubarb comes from the region north-west of Sungpan (Ssuch'uan) and from the neighbouring part of Kansu, where it grows wild among scrub and near rocky watercourses between 7,500 and 12,500 feet altitude. This is Rheum j)almatum, var. tanguticurn, but there is a second-grade rhubarb, R. of ficin ale, also in the market, found near Tachienlu, on the Tibetan border; and a veiy inferior rhubarb is cultivated in the forests of N.W. Hupei. Rhubarb has been known in China for 5,000 years. Exportation 1915, Pels. 14,000, value Tls. 223,000; 1916, Pels. 8,017, Tls. 131,281.