,Powells’ Horticultural Garden 
ORCHI DS ONLY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
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Sunday night 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA 
December 3, 1922 
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My dear Dr Ames: 
I have your letters of Pov 18 a 20 for which thanks. 
Your new venture ,, Orehidaceae %uadam Americanae " Do 1 is just what 
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American Orchidology should have had for years past and will fill 
< acheing void. Congratulations. I have gone over it with avidity and 
| profit. Your Epid alanjense is most probably my Do 84 determined by 
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Schlechter as Encyclia chiriquense. The description fits remarkably 
close and taking the locations from which both come, both sea level, 
•|J only about 20 miles apart,it is fair to believe them identical. When 
^ I S° ‘to Chiriqui in Feb or March I intend to cover this Alanje district 
closely,and I can then positively determine. ¥wsr-r Epid pseudepiden- 
i drum, Reich.f. also grows in this Alanje district and I want to get it. 
^ 1 My Do 83 Encyclia Powellii, Schtr, ined, was first brought to my notice 
by a plant sent me by Mr Lankester. I after found it freely in Chiriqui, 
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the flower stems are about 2-3 feet long heavily flowered. If this is 
Epid ramonense, Reich.f. it is passing strange that Mr Rolfe should 
have written me that he could not identify it, and later that Schlechter 
should have made both of his mistakes, after having his attention 
called to his first error. The plant and flowers closely resemble the 
4 J-g colored figuration in Bot Mag of Epid profusum, Rolfe. However I have 
learned that these "Savant s’Vboth.made many errors, and it may be you are 
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right. The/herbarium at San Jose, C.R. should settle this conclusively. 
^ ^ ! I have also noted your determination that Epid Radlkoferianum, Schtr 
V is really E.volutum, lindl. and I have^ noted this on my specimen. 
I am so pleased that you like Lankester’s writing. He is 
jP t ^ a fine fellow. Has a great deal of badly digested Orchid lore, but 
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withall is mighty well posted. 
