July 11 th, 1923 
Hy tier-r Mi*. Iimbeeterj 
I an Badly In need of your help 
for an un&ersitmdiiia of the group of Ept&endruras of the 
£. crlstotalouse alli .nee.{of.Sohed. Oroh. 4 # 38)* A 
specimen lw just ocna in from Zew t your 120, for ident¬ 
ification. It --eeara to have been influenced by cultivate 
ion rail i.. not at all typical, -he other members of the 
lg.i IM. 
sronp -ire £. Sehltr., 2I£ftGiiaShsal Sehltr. 
and 2. T f aiiolieamta Eolfe. To bafog the issue your K}6$ t a 
ranch larger flowered form than any of these,which I referred 
tc b, crlst obo ? emso T lies in the Yew Herbarium. Yon refer 
to 38 I as eoirmon at medium elevations, X wish yon would 
study the rax:, of variation, blooming season etc, and 
sene' me a series of Illustrative specimens. B.uroe t achynm 
flowers at El Jvihlaso, near San dose in September. The type w 
wui coll acted by Brael Jlaanee* It has very, small folwers. j£ 
dol ichoatachvm flowers at £a Palma in September, Xf has 
lunger flowers; than j|, ttohAt aohvma, Your plants flowered in 
January and February and have larger flowers than any of the 
others. £. Lfatehes.nnjo is supposed to come from So. America. 
‘The question or isos as to there being before us a polymorphic 
species which If best placed in £. lauchanmna . 
Yours faithfully, 
