Powells Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
BALBOA, C. Z., P A N A M A_ January 22, 1922, , 92 
My dear Dr .Ames: 
I received several days ago your esteemed letter of Jan 
6th and I was delighted to know that you had the specimens which I had 
sent to Mr Rolfe, "because this precludes the possibility of synonyms and 
the resultant confusion. Any technical differences you can adjust with 
Dr Schlechter and advise me of your joint conclusions for correcting my 
records here, 
The herbarium which I am constructing for you is absolute^ 
type, and I would request that you will verify the Dew specimens with it 
before returning. Your herbarium will be more perfect than even Dr 
Schlechters, as he only gets plant specimens of new species and of such 
old as he makes a special request for. 
I expect that you laughed at some of my efforts -a® descrip - 
tions in Mr Rolfes, but you must remember that at the time I was a novice 
and Mr Rolfe wrote me to do the best I could and he would straighten out. 
As he only asked me for flowers, you will find but few plant specimens 
and these were sent of my .own volition where I thought I saw some reason 
therefor. I will take my list of those sent Mr Rolfe and make some few 
comments: Do 5 I have cancelled, being now quite sure that I was misin¬ 
formed as to location from which it came. It is a Costa Rican plant. 
Do 23 I called an Epidendrum, I now know it to be a Dichea. I have no 
flower specimen and the plant has died, but I remember it perfectly, I 
hope to find another plant, knowing where it was found. Do 36 I have 
cancelled, as I now am quite sure that it is the same as Do 35. Do 46 
is a Mormodes Hookerii, the same as Do 24. if have cancelled the number. 
Do 50 is cancelled, it being an Ecuadorian plant. Dos 55.56.57 /v have been 
cancelled as my man in re-blocking mixed the labels^ and I will make new 
