Caraesa, June 22, 1931 
Mr. Ellsworth P. Eillip, 
0. 3. National Museum, 
Division of Plants, 
Washington, J.G. 
Dear Mr. Eillip: 
At last I am able to send you the list of 
names from the beginning of my work in Venezuela up to 
n° 8629. We have been working under peculiarly difficult 
circumstances. Since June 1st., I am without assistants 
and even the porter has been taken away from the Museum. 
If this should continue I would probably be obliged to 
relinquish my position, but as a big change is now going 
on in the Government, I still have hopes that matters 
can be arranged. The reason given for the above men¬ 
tioned suppression was a radical cut in the budget. 
With regard to your big list of names, I note 
that you identify n° 11190 with Xupr ec htia Hamanii , while 
those leaves belong to the type of Huprechtia Saeri Pitt. 
11° 11583 is under three distinct generic names, one given 
at Xew, another given by Blake and the last one by you as 
determined by Gleason. N° 13264, Ottoa Jahnii , corres¬ 
ponds very well with the description of 0. oenanthoides 
major Wolff of the Pflanzenreich; the same is probably 
the case with 429 Jahn, which would be the type of the 
new species. 3o it is better that Hose did not pu¬ 
blished his description. 
N° 13327 is rather Melothria scabra Naud. N° 
337 Gehriger, you call Lippia hirsuta ~ It does not answer 
to the description; is it not rather Lippia venesuelensis 
Briquet? And what do you do with Pittder 9870, 9^65, 
Jahn 1140, Allart 167, 288 ? 304 Gehriger you call poly- 
podium leucolepis XI. and I have it as E ryngium Moritzii 
Wolff. N° 341 of Holt is Croton pungen s, but it was 
collected at La Victoria, utate of Aragua, and has nothing 
