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OAKES AMES.director. 
BOTANIC CARDEN OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. U.S.A. 
June 7th, 192£, 
My dear Mr, Powell; 
In one of your letters you requested 
that I should send to you from time to time news"of any 
observations made on your speoimeas in the course of my 
studies. Yesterday I had in hand you no, 63, According 
to your list of identifications this number is iflaoyo - 
lia profusa ga(Rolfe)Schltr. Your notes on the she'etT in¬ 
dicate tKat”you had previously referred the specimens to 
gold endr um spondiadura, Now, both determinations are rad¬ 
ically erroneous. An to your material being £• profueum 
Holfe, there is not a chance in the worldl I teTl you 
this after having boiled up a flower of the type for com¬ 
parison with your specimen. Although I have not attempted 
to Identify your specimen,as you will wish to write to xr. 
Behleohter for a revision, you may be interested to gtm w 
that I regard it as & now species. As yet 83 is only rep¬ 
resented here In the Kew set. Material for the herbarium 
will bo a. welcome acquisition* 
delates rqsoa is badly needed, I hope 
you will turn this up in "the near future. 
You® specimens are so well prepared that 
it is a pleasure to work with them# fhia is especially true 
of the flowers in the pooicetB, Often it is posBiiiie to tint 
the labeHum and other ports with colors that indicate the 
characters in my drawing®. Yon are to be congratulated! 
Most of the time is devoted now to prep¬ 
arations for departure on June 28th, fhere arqso many" notes 
to set down and so many problems to attack in order to as¬ 
certain what is needed from abroad that the days seem all 
too short, I feel pretty we&ry by nightfall. 
Yours faithfully. 
C, W, Powell, 
Balboa, Canal Aone, 
Panama, 
