324 THE ORCHID REVIEW. | NOVEMBER, 1923- 
The true Sarcopodium (Dendrobium) acuminatum was described in 1905 
(Ames Orchid. 1. p. 86), from dried specimens collected on Mt. Mariveles, in 
the province of Bataan, Philippine Islands, the colour of the flowers being 
given as white and yellow. It was shortly afterwards figured (A mes Orchid. 
wt. t. 17), and in an accompanying note Prof. Oakes Ames remarks that : 
“In general aspect the plants resemble Dendrobium cymbidioides very 
closely and might pass as luxuriant forms of that species, if it were not for 
the very different lip and the acuminate sepals and petals. The plants grow 
in a region where for a part of the year the air is extremely humid and 
at other times extremely dry.” 
In 1907 what was supposed to be the same species was figured from a 
specimen collected in the same province by Mr. W. S. Lyon, and in 1909 
Mr. Lyon’s plant flowered in England and received a First-class Certificate 
when exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society. Both appeared under 
the name Dendrobium acuminatum, but the flowers, instéad of being white 
and yellow, were rosy-carmine with deep wine-red on the labellum. It was 
then discovered that these represented a different species ; in fact, they were 
Sarcopodium (Dendrobium) Lyonii, a new species described in 1908 by Mr. 
Oakes Ames as ‘‘differing from acuminatum in its roughish pseudobulbs 
which are minutely pitted when dry, in its larger leaves, shorter pedicels, 
Jonger floral bracts and large flowers, which are described by the collector 
as being rosy-carmine shading to wine-red on the labellum.” 
The issue of Addisonia for June, 1923, contains a coloured plate of 
Sarcopodium Lyonii, prepared from a plant that flowered in the New York 
Botanical Garden in March, 191g. __In its native home this species is found 
at an altitude of about 2,000 feet and appears to be restricted to a narrow 
altitudinal belt. In the above mentioned publication it is stated that 
“under cultivation S. Lyonii has not proved to be a free growing species. 
In fact, Mr. Lyon in his early attempts to cultivate it at Manila concluded 
that at sea level it was less tractable than S. acuminatum and with difficulty 
kept alive.” 
Although members of the Sarcopodium genus require a high temperature 
during their season of activity, several English growers have been successful 
in the cultivation of S. Lyonii, Notable examples were seen at the Chelsea 
Show of 1922, when Sir Jeremiah Colman exhibited four plants, the largest 
carrying a total of fifty-five flowers, and at the same event in 1923, wher 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown received a Cultural Commendation for a superb 
plant bearing five many-flowered spikes. 
Regarding the genus Sarcopodium, which consists of about twenty 
Species, Lindley stated that it is “intermediate between Dendrobium and 
Bulbophyllum, having the large flowers of the former, and the peculiar 
creeping habit of the latter. The species agree with Dendrobium in having 
