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Powells' Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA^ 
192 
In your letter of Sep 22nd your reference to a Masdevallia in 
lot of specimens sent you on July 2,has provoked a lively Interest. 
I am supposing that you refer to no 223 Sca*huse*alum, *anamense- 
Behlechter. When I sent this on to Dr S,I called it Masdevaiixa 
as my tentative diagnosis; tut he cietermineu it as S.panamense; and 
1,being but a novicejaccepted his ipse dixit without a word. The 
M. livingstoneana.Reieh.f. has been a desideratum by me since I 
have been collecting urchids. I have never yet seen a figuration 
of *lant or flower, and the only descriptio n of the flower I have 
seen is that at page liy, May iyj-8, urehid Review, written by R.A.R 
Idid not think of M.Livmgstoneana when I sent this plant on* because 
I had always thought that my no 78 of Rew specimens was . If you flex 
will remember, sometime back I wrote you regarding ho 78 lew Spec 
ho 78 
and you wrote me that, it was missing. I sent it to Mr R on Apl 7 
l»-*-y ^ consisting of a number of flowers^only reserving one flower 
as a case Specimen. At that time I had the suspicion that it might 
be M.livingstuneana. I am sending you herewith this reserved flower. 
I cannot recall the description sent Mr Rolfe nor can I find my 
copy of it. This plant was found at approx sea level in tne loot 
hills east of tne City of xaxiama and has never been found since^that 
I have any knowleuge of. It was a medium size plant and flowered 
freely; but died soon alter f 1 think from too much snane and water. 
I recall how proudly I sent it on to R.A.R., believing tnai I had 
n ff 
the long lost. He never replied to me yea or nay and thus the dream 
went to pieces, leaving me only this one lone flower relic. 
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I do not recall that flowery had dark violet sepal^aw* tails ^ 
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