Powells' Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
112 
I hope that your mail will be forwarded to you. 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA. 
July 2. 1922 
My dear Dr Ames: 
On June 26th afternoon I cabled you , 
" Have found Selenipedium chica plants. Pleasant voyage 
That noon ray Indian brought me in two plants which I promptly 
identified as the ekiea, and as I knew it would .give you pleasirre 
I sent the cable. One has last years seed c psuits on it. 
On June 29 I received your letter of 19th with 
the photographs of S.chics, and, I made further comparison which 
confirmed the one made on 26th. 
I will now take up your letter and replfr to it. 
I think it best to do this now instead of waiting until* your re¬ 
turn. I will keep a loo 1 - out for E. difforme Jacq ( E, firraum of 
/leickHE. majale of Schtr). I would not be at all surprised if I 
had it in my hands last January when, in Chiriqui, as I cone across 
several plants like my Ho 62 E7 cfelorocorymbis of Schtr, and thinkming 
them the same,did not bother to bring out of the jungle with me. 
I have written Schleehter regarding all errors 
which you have pointed out, ofcourse not mentioning you in the 
matter even by inference, I wrote and suggested that he look them 
up. 
I note that you have made photographs of a critical 
set from the Hew specimens. How as it is not improbable that you 
had printed several copies, I would ask that you will send me one 
of each photo which you may have made of any of my specimens. I 
would be delighted to have them to file with my herb specimen. 
I have received the Ridgeway color standard and I 
think that next to Willis book,it is the best thing I have of a 
reference kind. I will use it freely after this, especially when I 
make a critical specimen, 
I wrote you an explanation of. the mix up in the 
Habemaria Ho 162,in my la _ t letter. When you read it you will see 
that you were " alarmed disagreeably" without sufficient cause. 
The matter was simple and. you had already some time ago been put 
on your guard© against a possible error, by me^ /fci A'a-j /&?-. 
I have given my Indian a specila commission to 
devote his entire time for several trips in different sections to 
procuring all of the Habenaria plants he cen find,say six of a 
kind, he to make careful examination of the plants as he encounters 
them, by comparison with those he has already found on the trip. 
This man has been carefully trained by me and is a bloodhound after 
anything I tell him to make a special hunt for. I am therefore 
sure of getting my hands on several varieties. He has been working 
for me for the past 5 years. 
The Cleistes rosea, is in bud,and I am sure that 
unless something untoward happens yojt will find on your return a 
specimen awaiting you. 
