]i- rth Easton, Massachusetts 
August 30 , 1932 
hy dear Hr, Edwefcdsi 
Your 186, Laelia Dgrbbiana , is a 
most extraordinary find and I am deeply grieved to think 
that you did not save the need pod and send the ripe 
seed to me. Of course you could not knov^ this. In all zuy 
experience I have never seen a qp ecimen of this species 
with broad , fringed petals. Perhaps there is a record 
somewhere of such r variety, but I have not been able to 
find one. The broad fringed petals, if they could be 
imparted to hybrids v itb Cnttley* r-nri Lnelia would give 
u« nr. entirely new strain of horticultural orchids. At 
least, I think so. If by any chance, the variety is common 
in Honduras, it may prove orthy of a name. 2 am having 
the flower drawn, and if it comes out well T shall publish it 
i ae Bulletin of the American Orchid Society. 
column of a Stelir, but the vegetative parts and the shape 
of the flower rcunable T'leurothallie, I think jthie is a new 
species. It in a dear thing. I hope you will find more of 
It. in your rambles* l'ho alcoholic material comes in mighty 
handy for a good drawing I 
In the good old days that Laelia Dygbyana 
in Stevens auction rooms in London would have turned in ou 
pre ty penny. One hates to think of what it would bring now 
among our hybridizers who are on the lookout for anything 
exceptional. 
