Powells' Horticultural Garden 
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Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA 
1922 ’92 
My dear Dr Ames 
A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU f AH 1 HAPPY BIW YEAR . 
I am sending you by mail tomorrow bottled specimens of 
Ho 95 Incyclia tessellata 
129 Deiochilus Powellii 
172 Pleurethalis diuturaa 
219 Pleurothalis pyrsodes 
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Herbarium specimens have been heretofore sent you. 
' 267 Qncidiua -— ----? 1S"5 in Kew specimens 
268 Masdevallia-? 
269 -—-:_? 
t am sending these three last in advance of the herbarium specimens 
because I wish you to see the color scheme as nearly as possible. The 
^herbarium specimens will come on in a few days. 
I am enclosing you herewith a colored drawing of No 269 flower. It 
was made for me from a live flower under X 10 of microscope. It is 
a free hand, but the colorings are as near the flower as could be 
matched. It was made for me by a New York artist who is taking a w 
vacation here. The same artist who made the Stanhopea, which you 
now have. This is a most curious flower formation, one that I cannot 
recall as having seen in print. The bulbs resemble a Delia anseps in 
shape, placed about one to two inches along a running rhizome» The 
flower stem hangs pendant from base of bulb. The leaves and bulbs 
are a light colored,shining green* Diphyllous, with no auxilliary 
side leaves. A clean looking plant. What can it be ?. 
Most sincerely yours 
