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⁴ Laufer, *op. cit.* pp. 190, 210, 221, assumes that these two plants were brought by Chang-k’ien. But Ssu-ma Ch’ien ascribes their introduction to ‘Chinese envoys’, Hirth p. 108 §100, and Pan-ku to a subsequent Chinese mission, Wylie p. 45, de Groot p. 111. Pan-ku says later, in his own summing up (Wylie part 2 p. 113): ‘The reports regarding the celestial horse and grapes led to the opening up of communication with Ta-yuan’; in his view then, as regards the vine, Chang-k’ien only brought back a *report*.