114 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
Illustrative specimen from Rizal Province, Luzon, September, 
1916 (Merrill: Species Blanecoanae No. 1023). 
Epidendrum ruibarbarum redolens Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 593 (sp. 
nov.) ; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 45, t. 389 (rhabarbarum Sareea: RRR: 
BIUM ANOSMUM Lindl. (D. superbum Reichb. f.). 
DENDROBIUM RETUSUM Llanos in Mem. Acad. Cienc. Madr. 2 (1859) 
498 (sp. nov.); F.-Vill. & Naves in Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 3, 4° (1880) 
100=? DENDROBIUM ANOSMUM Lindl. : ; 
This species is of local occurrence in the Philippines at medium 
altitudes and is brought into Manila in considerable quantities 
in March and April of each year, its period of anthesis, for sale. 
I have followed J. J. Smith in accepting Lindley’s specific name, 
Dendrobium anosmum Lindl. having been reduced by Reichen- 
bach f. to D. superbum Reichb. f. as a variety. Blanco’s bar- 
baric name is much older than Dendrobium superbum Reichb. 
f., the older Dendrobiwm macrophyllum Lindl. and D. macran- 
thum Hook. being invalid in the genus, and was published in 
the same year as D. anosmum Lindl. The reduction of Dendro- 
bium retusum Llanos merely follows Naves’s disposition of it, 
who piaced it as a synonym of D. macrophyllum. Lianos’s 
description is entirely inadequate. 
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM Blume es 
Ophyrs cernua Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 639 (Ophiris); ed. 2 (1845) 445; 
ed. 3, 3 (1879) 35, t. 276, non Linn. =GRAMMATOPHYLLUM:MUL- 
TIFLORUM Lindl. 
Blanco’s species was reduced by F.-Villar to pas Sy Te 
scriptum Blume, which while certainly correct as to the genus, 
is as certainly wrong as to the species, as Blume’s species does 
not grow in the region from which Blanco secured his specimens. 
There is no doubt in my mind that the form Blanco described 
as Ophyrs cernua is Grammatophyllum multiflorum Lindl., this 
being the only species of the genus whose known distribution 
agrees with Blanco’s plant as to locality. 
Illustrative specimen from Sorsogon Province, Luzon, Maost: 
1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 930). 
LUISIA Gaudichaud 
Dendrobium teres Blanco Fi. Filip. (1837) 638 non Roxb.=Dendrobium 
teretifolium Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 2. (1845) 444; ed. 3, 3 (1879). 34, non 
R, Br.=LUISIA sp. 
Blanco’s species was reduced by Naves to Luisia teehee 
Gaudich., but in the uncertain status of the various species of 
Luisia, this may or may not be correct. As to the genus, how- 
ever, there is absolutely no doubt, for among all the Philippine - 
