pay envelope If your specimens proved attractive. 
Tae alcohol material it spendld. Without it I should find It 
difficult to identify the fleshy Cataceturns. It is almost impossible to 
press such things without destroying the structure of the slipper-like 
labellum. 
x hope you will strike an orchid flowering season soon, so that 
your collections '111 increase. The tiny Pleurothallis species are a delight, 
^ £'g£a : nth;u? hojndurensis Ames is also a nr civ e of the region round Tela. 
I found it there in 19P3, 
Your i^Msavcla kigbvana^Lrelin l igbyana) has been drawn and will 
appear in the next number of the American Orchid Society bulletin. It is 
called vs\r. firhri p otola. Is there a remote chance that this fringed petal 
form is a regional race? If no, it right pay to collect plants for intro¬ 
duction. ' ! i course, it is wholly possible that you collected the only plant 
representing the fringed petals. All others way be normal, but sometimes 
a form may be typical of a limited region. It would be strange indeed if 
-you-your first strike -aa the exception to x he rule! 
Ibo next shipment will be looked for ith much interest. 
incerely yours. 
