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broken up into a delicate spreading fringe the filaments of which are about 5 
mm long. 
Lindley’s type specimen, for 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. scopa 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. 
Dendrobium 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. 
Luzon,. Tarlac Province, W. 8. Lyon 110. 
276. SARCOPODIUM Lindl. 
In the “Orchid Review” for August, 1910 (18: 237) Mr. R. A. Rolfe 
gives a list of twenty-one species, usually referred to Dendrobium, which 
he regards as constituents of a distinct genus, namely Sarcopodium. This 
genus was originally proposed, by Lindley for the inclusion of a small 
group of species which Reichenbach f. referred to fiulbophyttum. At 
present only three Philippine species of Sarcopodium are known. All 
of these have recently been described. S. acuminatum Kranzl. was the 
first to be discovered, S. Lyonii Rolfe (S. acuminatum var. Lyonii 
Kranzl.) the second, and S. stella silvae Kranzl. & 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 R. A. Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 18: 240. 
Dendrobium Lyonii Ames Orch. 2: 177. 
D. acuminatum Kranzl. Orchis 2: 73, not Rolfe. 
Sarcopodium acuminatum var. Lyonii Kranzl. in Fedde Rep. 7’: 40. 
In' view of Doctor Kranzlin’s treatment of S. Lyonii, Mr. Rolfe’s opinion in 
the “Orchid Review” is of interest. He says S. Lyonii is allied to S. acumin- 
atum, but has larger rosy-carmine flowers with a darker lip. “It has been con- 
fused with the preceding, 7 and I believe includes all the plants which have been 
recently exhibited under the name D. acuminatum, also the figure in Gard. 
Chron. 1907, ii, p. 210, fig. 88; 1909, ii. p. 150, fig. 64; Gard. Mag. 1909, pp. 
649, 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 specimens 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 exhibit a wide 
range of variation, some of the scapes approximating 2 dm in lengthr The 
variation in the leaves is also notable, ranging from the ligulate form char- 
Sarcopodium acuminatum. 
