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555 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass. 
Decemoer 30th, 1922. 
dear Mr. Lankester: 
Your letter of December 8th, has arrived. 
Dow that I know you are ready to receive the copies of my pub¬ 
lications, it will be a pleasure to forward them to you. Should 
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they prove too bulky and take up toomuch room, I am sure that 
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you will be able to dispose of them to some one of the museums, 
i You refer to Bpidendrum laterals ♦ This 
species has never been properly published under that name, I am 
afraid we must take up for it the name proposed by Schlechter, 
that is, B. Rousseauae . If you come across specimens they would 
be most welcome S 3 I only know the Costa Rican form through the 
specimens at Kew. 
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I have received a specimen of Fleurothallis 
oostarioensi s from Eew. Gradually we are beginning to assemble the 
material that will clear up some of the doubtful species of your 
collection. 
There are two very distinct sections of 
Miltonia. One of these is so suggestive of Odontoglossum that one 
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finds difficulty in attempting to keep them apart. Miltonia Oohrod - 
eriana does suggest Odontoglossuia cariniferum and it would seem that 
where one belongs, the other belongs also. 
I have boon unable to verify the report that 
Cattleya Dowiana is a native of Cdsta Rica. Undoubtedly, however, 
the early records are reliable. 
< Cattleya granulosa is wholly doubtful as a 
Guatemalan species. As you know, this species was supposed to be a 
discovery of Hartweg made in Guatemala in 1840. I have seen nothing 
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comparable to it among Central Amerioan orchids. 
