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f'Pf terser ©Sth, 192 ?. 
1 V y de ar Vr. Powell: 
I haster to enolcee a very fcor, but 
extremely irterestir*' photo^raffc of the first bit of evi¬ 
dence 7 have secured as to the identity of the Panama 
V f* s <i e v r! 1 i a referred to p? lascteiollia tivinfston i a no by 
nelchenbsch. 7 ha-Ve to* yet succeeded ir deoij heri vg the 
horrible, yet oh araoterisfcio yf.rit.in/ of the mar., hut I 
t hi to 1? there is ro dcvbt at to the vat or odor dr awind 
heir/ of the ! Isezl ep seiner from Fanssr.. foes] 7^ end 
Fatal! a ere decipherable words ir the rsss, 'F-s T told you 
in an earlier letter, the actual specimen must be in the 
herds of Frits Kr* s e r: ?. 1 i r, ( fchl echt e-r ‘Vs dearest friend I ) 
an a teyrorsrv loan. r het is ■■ >, y By information or this 
subject is still i r •'d: e o u ate. r o it t h e r h o t r / r aj- h , if y o u 
ex am i re it with a pocket. 1 ers, you w i 1 1 be able to tell 
whether or- ro 4 : the Foezl p 1 art retches your S c o f t os e t a l un 
fen on er.se Fcb.lt r. If it c’r e e rot, then you still have 
scist hi T?,f to look for ir the wilds of F anait a. 7 he sepals 
are yellowish with a rare or, eye at the ''see of each. 
T am simply overwhelmed with the task 
o© ready for the herbarium the material I brought 
back with re. T estimate nor that T have in bend as a re- 
*»! t of two worth'’ p ror k in Furfirf nearly three thousand 
specimens. The e e hur.dr ed sj eoi mens represer.t dvj liettea 
of Lehmann'' s Col orb inn orchids presented to me by Ket. 
Photo/r'aphs of types exceed t. be number T fave you by over- 
three hundred, all tropicsl American! ! I will ser.d you 
norne of t he food ones v hen T p*ot time to breal he. 
v a u rs fait b f u 1 1 y 
'\iv r . C \ ' -—an. 
