365 Commonwealth Avenue, 3oaton, Hass. Feb, 8, 1922. 
Mf dear Ur. Powell: 
You asked me to send to you any obser¬ 
vations 1 aside an I worked through your specimens. To¬ 
day I have been busy with Polystaehya sc represented in 
Central America ana tho v ost Indies* dour 122 referred 
to ?* panamene is Jchitr* ined., is painfully close to 
P. minor Pave, a 3onale. a Jamaican spooled which also 
reaches Pritisn Guiana, according to its authors, and 
is a native of Mexico and Panama according to my obser¬ 
vations. I do not dee on what characters hr* 3. separ¬ 
ates his species cased on your 122 from P. minor. Fur¬ 
thermore he has recently published a new species under 
the name P. guate m alensis comparing it with P, minor* 
If you do not happen to have material of P, minor, I will 
send you a few flowers and the 'Original description of 
the species* 
You may be sure that I an counting the 
days in anticipation o ’ another package of your valued 
material. 
Youra faithfully. 
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