nearly every tree. Lankester does not know its name—why 
he has not sent you specimens, I do not know. In the 
herbarium in San Jose there is a specimen labeled Bpiden- 
drum tonduzii Schlechter, but 1 understand that name has 
not been published. That herbarium, incidentally, has been 
almost completely ruined by insects. The orchid specimens 
were all sent to Europe some years ago. In San Jose I 
was told that they had been lost in a fire, but Mr. Pittier, 
who is in Washington just now, says that Sehleehter 
probably has them! It is just as well if he has, for they 
would have been ruined there. 
Sine^erely yours, 
Paul C. Stand ley, 
Associate Curator, 
Division of Plants 
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