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A parasitic genus, instituted by Loureiro in his account 
of the plants of Cochinchina, and named in reference to the ~ 
faculty its species possess of growing when ‘suspended, so 
as to be cut off from all sustenance but that derived imme- 
diately from the atmosphere. Plants of other genera of 
this tribe, and even some of a different tribe (see fol. 105 of 
this work), are endowed with a like faculty ; in none however 
can such insulation be considered as the state of existence 
which suits them best, but merely as one that they are 
enabled to endure, as a Carp is known to do that of being 
suspended out of water in a damp cellar. The most suc- 
cessful mode of treating plants of this nature in these 
climates, has been devised by Sir Joseph Banks, to whom 
we are obliged for the opportunity of representing the pre- 
sent specimen, which flowered in the hothouse of his garden 
at Smallberry-Green, and had been introduced by himself. 
The method he pursues, is, to place the plants separately in 
light cylindrical wicker baskets or cages of suitable widths, 
of which the frame-work is of long slender twigs wattled 
together at the bottom and shallowly round the side, the 
upper portion being left open that the plant may extend its 
growth in any direction through the intervals, and yet be 
kept steady in its station, the ends of the twigs having been 
tied together by the twine that suspends the whole to the 
woodwork of the stove, a thin layer of vegetable mould is 
strewed on the floor of the basket, on which the rootstock 
is placed, and then covered lightly over with a sufficiency 
of moss to shade it, and preserve a due degree of moisture, 
water being occasionally supplied. The diminished: outline 
in the corner of the annexed plate is intended to exemplify 
he appearance of our plant under that treatment. 
The present is an unpublished species, and’ native of 
China. We do not believe that any of the genus has 
been figured from a plant which has flowered in Europe till 
now. It is closely allied to the Chinese portion of Cym- 
‘BipIUM, in which the label, however, has not a spurlike 
pouch as here. 
Agripes paniculatum is an herbaceous perennial; the 
caudexlike rootstock leafy from top to bottom, compressed, 
upright, branchingly radicant, roo¢s lateral in the intervals 
of the foliage, round, thick, tortuous, knottedly wrinkled, 
smooth, of a colour resembling that of the silkworm, green 
at the points. Leaves many, alternate, in two ranks, 
