BOTANIC CARDEN OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 
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OAKES AMES, director. 
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. U.S.A. 
BpldwndruK tenuiflorua Sohltr, should be closely com¬ 
pared with a. oentropetaluEi Reiohb.f. Costa Hi can material 
is Herb* Amu s that is reasonably authentic through compari¬ 
son with Keicheabaoh’a description and plat® and with trac¬ 
ings frora the Vienna type, are painfully chise to the Pow¬ 
ell specimens* Tkej|chief difference seems to lie in the re¬ 
lative proportions of the iip& (dohiechter T s E. tenuilabium 
in t fea Rational liar barium, a name, which I take it, had it 3 
origin in a Schleohterian slip of the pen, oolongs here. Ho 
1* tenuilabiua dohltr* has yet teen published.) It would be 
well to o© on the alert,when you visit Chiriqui again, for 
a broad leaved form of ten uii’lora a -llae aspect which has a 
different callus on the lip, a median one with the tip free 
from the disk of the lip. This is the j£. aberruns of Sohltr. 
Gong-ora tricolor of the Srowoli collection seams very 
much the BftJBfi thing as & heichcntaohian specimen in Herb. 
Amss prepared by Beiehonbach from specimens cultivated in 
Hot. Garb* Saab. Heiohenbach identified this specimen as 
.^uinqu^nervis . Q, gov-ollii sohltr,scams to bo very close 
to this species? Your opinion as to this should be more 
trustworthy than that of bchlschtor. 
1 hare packed up the caraers-luoida out-fit and this 
goes forward to your address either t-dag or to-morrow, I 
have included the lowest power spare leas I had on hand. 
This gives magnifications which you will find most useful 
