The Panama Canal 
Canal Zone 
Health Department 
IN REPLY REFER TO FILE 
98 
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alboa, ^anal Zone, -Manama 
May 18, 1922. 
My dear Dr Ames: 
Will you kindly look at Kew speoiraens Is 
Wo 22 I think a Maxillaria 1 Wave only 1 flower ^ " 
Wo 78 1 think a Masdevalia do 
I Have plant of Wo 22, but it has never flowered for me sine* I made the Kew 
spaoiraens. I have no plant oiff Wo 78, it died. 
If you find that the quantity of flowers in the Kew lot justifies it, will 
you kindly divide and send me a part of them. I think that it may be best to 
send on to Dr Schlechter a specimen of these flov/ers and if possible have them 
identified or determined. I was pretty liberal with specimens to Kew, as a rule* 
I feel quite sure that Wo 22 will do better for me from now on, as I rebasketed 
it a short time back and it is now growing like^ bay tree. This plant was 
found by me floating in Gatun Lake on a dead log*^partly rotted,and water soaked. 
I have now put it in fresh Wphagnum moss and am keening it soaking v/et- it seems 
to like it. 
I am sure Wff sooner or later to get another plant of No 78. 
X am desirous of closing up these old Kew spaeimens as soon as possible, by 
determinations or identifications* 
Very sincerely yours 
jZ- <a 
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