Powells Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
78 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA_ J 8.HU&I*y ] .& , 1922 l92 
My dear Dr Ames: 
I received last evening your welcome and esteemed 
letter of Jan 1st., and I thank you for the cordial good wishes for the 
coming and future years. These are most sincerely reciprocated,together 
with the farther one that as the days go by we will become better acquain¬ 
ted. 
This morning I forwarded to you by registered issfefeer the following 
specimens: 
Do 4 
Oncidium panamejtsis 
Schtr 
IT. S 
8 
Camaridium latffolia 
Schtr 
2T.S 
10 
Eulophia longifolia i H.B.A K) 
Schtr 
11 
Chondrorrhyncha lipscombii 
Rolfe 
35 
Epidendrum nocturnum, v panamense 
Schtr 
H.V 
38 
Epidendrum ebumeum 
Reich.f. 
58 
Oncidium Powellii 
Schtr 
D.S 
64 
Delia rubescens 
Lindl 
73 
Trichopilia suavis 
Lindl 
97 
Elleanthus Brenesii 
Schtr 
98 
Isochilus ehiriquense 
Schtr 
D.S 
118 
Maxillaria crassifolia 
Reich.f. 
127 
Maxillaria alba, v 
lindl 
134 
Scaphyglottis mesocopis 
Reich.f. 
167 
Xylobium elongatum 
Hemsl 
174 
Omithcephalus bicornis 
Reich.f. 
216 
Epidendrum nocturnum 
Lindl 
all of which I hope will reach you in good condition and be up to your 
expectations. 
These were all mounted before I received your letter telling me not 
to mount the specimens^because of the trouble f and the extra postage cost 
because of the papers weight. Unless there is some botanical or herbar¬ 
ium reason ? or that I am not doing the mounting correctly, I prefer to 
continue mounting them for the following: 
1. The specimens will all reach you in a much better condition than if 
they were sent in envelopes, because the handling and shaking up in the 
mails would detach the leaves, the inflorescence, and generally muss them 
