Mr® Ames-2 
Mr. Pittier has teen in Honduras for very short periods, 
the seoond time in 1919. His collections all come from 
the region of the Guatemalan "border and they are not very 
extensive. Dootor Blake accompanied Mr. Pittier in 1919 
and obtain 300 or 400 specimens in Guatemala and Honduras. 
These, of course, are all from the frontier and most of 
them were collected, I "believe, in Guatemala. 
These I "believe are about all the collections that 
are.known from Honduras except that there are references 
in^BjLolqgia to certain specimens at Kew obtained by miscel¬ 
laneous collectors. Their collections were probably of 
very small extent. It is a curious fact that no collections 
whatever seem ever to have been made in the central table¬ 
lands in Honduras about Tegucigalpa, and I suppose that that 
region is the part of Central America least known botani- 
cally. It is probably a very interesting area too, be¬ 
cause the elevation is considerable, about like that of 
Guatemala, and there are a great many high mountains with 
deep canyons. The country contains little improved land, 
and should prove to be a paradise for the collector. I am 
hoping that it will be possible for me to go there before 
very long. The region is easily accessible from the Pa¬ 
cific Coast by automobile from the port up to the capital. 
It is quite difficult to reach it from the Atlantic Coast. 
I have been making tentative plans for the trip to 
Costa Rica this coming winter and hope to have something more 
definite with regard to the trip within the next few weeks. 
Doctor Robinson is expecting to be here next week, and I 
hope then to discuss the matter with him. 
Sincerely yours, 
Paul C. Standley 
Assistant Curator, 
Division of Plants. 
