Shen Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Grass (cǎo) Shuo Kangxi Strokes: 16 Page 1050, Entry 03 Pronounced shuo Jade Chapters (Yupian): A medicinal plant known as shuo tiao. Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao): Each branch has five leaves. The seeds are initially green like mung beans. Each cluster is the size of a saucer and produces one to two hundred seeds, which ripen in the tenth month.