Powells' Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
123 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAM 
* Sent t t 17, 1922 
My dear Dr Amen: 
I am in receipt a few moments ago of your very aucc 
much esteemed letter from Vienna. I not only was glad to hear from, 
you,hut I was particularly interested in what you say about the 
much vaunted Rei.chea.bach herbarium- which has been a deterent and 
a bugbear to the Botanists ( Orchidists) for so many years. Just 
to think of the hesitancy end delays in making determinations, 
of 
because .this pig headed man’s action, gnxtkKxpgnrtxgfz mates one 
say cuss words. Then to find that his boasted superiority was non 
existant. Weil,this is in consonance with other German boasts 
which have been exploded by the war. 
I am sending you herewith 2 photos of Stanhopes. 
Wardii and of Cycnoches Powellii, omitted from my letter, they 
having been misplaced incident to my recent move. 
I also enclose you 3 Habenaria flowers, marked 
K 
B. C. D, (indly tell me if either 
the small flowers in ho 162 of Kew (speimens. I sent you a small 
flower in my last letter with the same enquiry- call that one A, 
I do not diagnose either one of the four as being 
ho 212,H. petalo3.es, (Idndl) Ames. Am x correct?. 1 know neither 
are Hq 162 H. patentiloba, Ames, C avicula, Schtr). Sorry to 
trouble you with these'enquiries, but I am anxious to get you a 
specimen of II. petalodes, v micrantha, Reich.f. snd will yet do 
so, with your help in identifying it. Specimens of all of these 
are made and held up. 
I figure that you received my last lot of specimens yester¬ 
day. 
Sincerely yours 
