SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
November 12, 1926 
Mr. Charles Schweinfurth, 
Botanical Museum, Oxford Street 
Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
Be ar Mr. S ch we i nf u r th : 
Immediately upon receipt of your letter ox November 
S, I made an attempt to find our material of Maxi11aria 
Rousseauae t and I expected there would be no difficulty 
about it. After careful search, however, I have been un¬ 
able to find anything that can possibly represent this 
species. I found in the herbarium an unnamed Maxi1 1aria 
obtained by Mr. Pittier from Mrs. Rousseau's collection, 
but the specinen was made in 1911 instead of 1914, and the 
plant is evidently quite a distinct thing from the one 
described by Schlechter, being much smaller in all its 
parts. 
In 1914 Mr. Pittier was working in Panama, more or 
less independently, and I think it is probable that he made 
a single specimen which was forwarded to Schlechter with 
the result that we do not have anything in the herbarium 
to represent this species. 
Yours very truly, 
Paul C. Standley 
Associate Curator, 
Division of Plants 
