chtor T s accumulations and then surpass them* Your 
assistance ha a been wonderful* I think you hare turned 
the tide* 'if you continue kind, we wont have to go to 
Berlin to find a rich representation of the oroliid :■ of 
Costa Rica, 
I think your conception of flewothaili; La.'ike3teri 
Relfe, is correct* At least from casual comparison 
of the speoim ns with the original description, the 
points of agre?:.:a»»t - re overwhelmi:yrly convincing* fhe 
specimens you have sent are a pure joy end fill a gap 
that has been a safest pei’plexiny one* I made a careful 
tm.©iv\y of what 1 took to be the type when 1 "'as at ICew* 
On m return hone I found that the specimen I h&C examined 
and took to be the type, mu* act P. La-dceeteri at all* 
Staa&ley has wjfr.U :en to infrcct re ihuo he will be 
pleased to leiIvor to you the volume of Orchida.ee© e that 
is* needed to complete your set* I an surprised to learfc 
that this volume was not sent with the set. It use eone 
good plates in it enu illustrates several Central / ..erl- 
c r. ore?ids. 
Lepan.th.vS flowers in liquid preoervetive are quite 
neoeo ary for purposes of Illustration* I intendto hold 
off on this genus until X receive euppl enestary material 
from you, Pleurotha.ll. 5r: is progreesliin wonderfully well* 
I hure^ about eighteen more species to } re drawn before 
I complete the proposals made in filched, Crch* I an sure 
that- the effort to represent Central American orchids in 
carefully prepared plates will me t with your approval* 
But above all, I hope this effort will stimulate „our 
interest in my behalf* 
Staadley is in Hew York to-day. When he arrives in 
Costa Rica, shower orchids on him, Labe it a rale that 
no orchid goes unpres- eft. 
With the best of good wishes* 
Yours cordially. 
