364 BOTANICON SINICU™M. 
This Chinese plant was first noticed by Semepo 250 
years ago [see my Early Europ. Res. Fl. Chin, p. 7). 
Lour. [ Fl. cochin., 642] describes it under the name of 
<Evides odorata (air plant) ; sinice: /um lan. Planta para- 
sitica . . . . folia linearia, crassa, magna, subincurva, reflexa 
* + + + racemis simplicibus longis . . . . Mirabilis hujus 
plantee proprietas est, quod ex sylvis domum delata, et in 
ere libero suspensa, absque ullo pabulo vegetabili terreo, — 
vel aqueo, in multos annos duret, crescat, floreat, et germinet. — 
Cust, Med., No. 1276 :—Tiao lan, Dendrobium nolbile, 
Lindl. 
203.—Fy Et shi wei. P., XX, 4. 7, OXXXIX. 
Pen king: —Shi rei (rock thong). The leaves are 
officinal. Taste bitter. Nature uniform. Non-poisonous. 
Pie lu:—Other name: Ay JR shi pt (rock leather). | 
The shi wei grows in Hua yin [in Shen si, App. 87], ee 
mountain-valleys and on rocks. The leaves are gathered ie 
the 2nd month and dried in the shade. The best kind 8 — 
that which grows in places where neither the noise of water _ 
nor the human voice are heard. 
T’ao Hune-king :—The plant creeps on rocks, and the ; 
leaves are like leather, whence the above names. It is@ is 
common plant. That from Kien p‘ing [in Hu pei, App. 
139] has large, long and thick leaves. 
Su Kone [7th cent.]:—It grows densely on the 
sides of rocks, in the shade, but does not creep [as gr 
Hone-xing asserts]. The kind which grows on old brick 
walls is called Fi HE wa (brick) wei, It is useful im the 
treatment of urinary calculus, . 
Su Sune [11th cent.]:—This plant is now found ™ 
-Tsin chou and Kiang chou [both in Shan si, App. 354, - 
