NOTES ON PHILIPPINE ORCHIDS, III. 5 
f> 
broken up into a delicate sjn-eadiiig fringe tlic fihmionts of wliieli are about 5 
mm long. 
Lindley's type specimen, fw an excellent sketch of which I am indebted to 
Doctor Prain, is perhaps stouter than my plants, but in other respects matches 
them perfectly. The labellum of D. scojya is well illustrated in Lindley's her- 
barium by a colored drawing. In outline and in general aspect this drawing 
agrees very well with the labellum of the plants collected by Mr. Lyon. 
Dendrohium scopa is referred to in J. J. Smith's "Die Orchideen von Java" 
as probably related to D. comatum Lindl. From the specimens at hand it would 
seem to be more nearly allied to D. angulatum in the form of the lip, but differs 
from that species in detail. 
Luzox, Tarlac Province, .1!'. S, Lyon 110. 
27G. SARCOPODIUM Lindl. 
In the "Orelnd Keview" for Aiigiist, 1910 (18: 237) Mr. R. A. Eolfe 
gives a list of twenty-one species, iisnally referred to Dendrohium, whicli 
he regards as constituents of a distinct genus, namely Savcopodium. This 
genus was originally proposed hy Lindley for the inclusion of a small 
group of species which Eeichenhach f. referred to BuIbopJiyllum. At 
present only three Pliilippine species of Sarcopodium are known. All 
of these have recently been described. S. acuminatum Kranzl. was the 
first to be discovered, 8. Lyonii Eolfe {S, acuminatum var. Lyonii 
Kranzl.) the second, and 5. stella silvae Kriinzl. & Loher, a species which 
I have not seen, the third. 
In its brief history Sarcopodium Lyonii has accumulated an interesting 
synonymy as follows : 
Sarcopodium Lyonii K. A. Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 18: 240. 
Dendrohium Lyonii Ames Orch. 2; 177. 
D. acuminatum Kriinzl. Orchis 2: 73, not Rolfc. 
Sarcopodium acuminatum var. Lyonii Kranzl. in Fedde Rep. 7: 40. 
In view of Doctor Kranzlin's treatment of S. Lyonii, Mr. Kolfe's opinion in 
the "Orchid Review" is of interest. He says H, Lymiii is allied to S. acumin- 
ainm, but has lar^^er rosy-carmine flowers with a darker lip. "It has been con- 
fused with the preceding,' and I believe iucludea all the plants which have been 
recently exhibited under the name /). acuminatum, alao the figure in Card. 
Chron."^1907, ii, p. 210, fig. 88; 1909, ii. p. ISO, fi<f. 6-); Gard. Mag. 1909, pp. 
G49, 660, with fig.; Journ, Hort., 1902, ii, p. 291, with fig.; Orchis ii, p. 73, 
t. 16." " ' 
280. PHREATIA Lindl. 
Phreatia prorepens Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. (1878) 54. 
Up to the present I had seen only the material in the Gray Herbarium 
identified by Reichenbach and the specimen;^ collected by Merrill on Mount 
Halcon. The collection under consideration was made by McGregor and is of 
unusual interest as it is composed of numerous specimens which exliibit a wide 
range of variation, some of the scapes approximating 2 dm in length. The 
variation in the leaves is also notable, ranging from the ligulate form char- 
^ 8aycopo(lin)ii aonminainm. 
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