cucullate, acute, repay: the other parts, marked in the throat 
with two yellow spots. 
PoruLar AND GeoGrapHicaL Notice. This ace occurs only 
in Japan, in 37° or 38° North Lat., and as this is in the same parallel 
as Lisbon, it is doubtless subject, periodically, to a very low tempera- 
ture. Dr. Lindley states, however, that it is also a native of China. 
In its natural situation it delights to locate itself among the moss 
of rocks and trees. The inhabitants of Japan, Keempfer says, from 
some singular superstition, suspend it in a basket before their doors, 
where it vegetates and flowers, like many of its congeners, without 
any communication with the earth ; it is therefore called an air-plant, 
or aérophyte, a tribe of ornamental plants, of which the Chinese are 
extremely fond. It is probable that the Japanese suspend it before 
their doors on account of its fragrance, which Bontius says rivals that 
of the orange flower, and affirms that he never in his life experienced 
so grateful an aroma. 
InTRopucTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. This species was 
introduced by the Horticultural Society about 1820. Our drawing 
was made from a plant which flowered in October in the superb col- 
lection of Messrs. Loddiges, Hackney. It grows in,a pot, the surface 
of which is covered with moss on a stand in the stove, the heat of 
which these intelligent cultivators do not consider too great for it; 
though it might be expected to bear with impunity one very much 
lower, considering the latitude whence it is brought, and the tolerance 
of cold which the Peonia moutan exhibits. It might, therefore, 
perhaps, be preserved in a cold frame, except when about to flower, 
when it should be placed in a warm, humid atmosphere. 
Derivation oF THE NAMEs. 
Denprosium, from Arvdpoy a tree, and Buog life, from living upon trees. 
MonittrorME, from monile, a necklace, referring to the necklace-like cha- 
racter of the stem 
SyNoNYMEs. 
Fu ine. Kempfer: Amcenitates Esotiew t. 865. 
EprmpENDRUM MoNILIFORME. Linneus: Species sienna, 1352, 
SS MONILIFORME. sine : Acta Holm. 1300, p. 264. 
Willden 
antarum, No. sh Hindley: Species and Genera of Grotto 
"Pinata, Bot. Register: 13 
