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404 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Octoper, 1907. _ 
might not be a new genus. That specimen I have not seen, but there is an ; 
earlier one in Lindley’s Herbarium, collected by them at the same spot in 
February, 1846.~ It is without number, and but for the different date 1 
should have taken it for the original specimen. Schlim collected the species — 
again in May and June, 1851, in the provinces of Ocana and Soto, at 2,600 
métres altitude (No. 388 of his collection). be 
Some time afterwards the species was figured and described by Dr. — 
Lindley, under the name of ‘‘ Odontoglossum Pescatorei, Lind. Cat.,” the ae 
author remarking that a specimen in flower had been sent last April by M. 
Linden, which had received a prize at Brussels on March 14th. Lindley 
added: “It has been named after the great and liberal French savant, 
Mons. Pescatore, whose beautiful hothouses at Celle St. Cloud, near Paris, 
contain, we believe, the finest collection of Orchids known upon the 
Continent, and are, perhaps, richer in rare species than even the best in 
England.” Immediately afterwards Fol. Orch., Odont. p. 19—the part 
being dated October, 1852—Lindley remarked: ‘‘ Since the publication of 
this [O. Pescatorei] in Paxton it has occurred to me that it is probably the 
O. nobile of Reichenbach fil., for which he quotes Funck and Schlim’s 
collection, No. 1429, a-number which I do not possess ; but unless there is 
some typographical errdr in the learned author’s specific character which 
destroys its meaning, his plant must be different.” The publication of the 
figure in Pescatorea, however, removed this objection, and there it is stated 
that the species flowered in Europe for the first time in 1851. Its subse- 
quent history is well known. — 
DENDROBIUM ACUMINATUM. 
Tuis is a very distinct Philippine species of Dendrobium, belonging to the — 
section Sarcopodium, which was described some time ago from dried 
specimens (Rolfe in Ames Orch. i. p- 86), and is now figured from 4 a 
photograph of a fine native specimen (Gard. Chron. 1907, ii. p. 210, fig: 88). 
Mr. W. S. Lyon, of the Bureau of Agriculture, Manila, remarks that while 
in habit and foliage this plant closely resembles D. cymbidioides, Lindl., its 
whole inflorescence is more than double the size. of that species. The 
flowers, which measure two or more inches across, are a deep peach-pink, 
shading to darker towards the base of the perianth, and the labellum pass® 
to a rich, velvety wine-red. When the sun is shining the flowers” 
disseminate the unique fragrance of noyeau, but in cloudy or overcast 
weather they appear to be quite scentless. The plant illustrated was 
found bedded in moss, growing on hardwood in the province of Bataan, 0 
miles west of Manila, at an elevation of 2,300 feet. It would be worth 
introducing into cultivation. 
