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lli’a. Imes is making- a drawing of ajBBaaJMXla lajjtoaatarl 
Rolfe, for Sched. Orc&. 7. We have about 39 drawings of Pleuro- 
t hall is ready xor publication, most of them Costa Rican species 
that you have contributed to the herbarium. I have been holding 
oil on the printing of this series, as I have some new s j )e 
propose and I want to see what Schlechter has done in that often 
promised, long delayed Mffi M of his, before I commit* myself 
to print. It is really a shame that two of us should be working 
up the same group for the same country at the same time. I have 
about concluded, however, to push forward and run the risk of 
being beaten to press. 
You refer in your last letter to means of longer exploratory 
trips. Surely nothing would please me more than to stimulate such 
trips by means of substantial contibutions. Let us have something 
to say about this. Suggestions will be welcome and will find a warm 
reception here. X am really fascinated by your Costa Rican orchid 
flora. I want to make a thorough study of thorn. If you can 'feel-1 
nr®'" more fully", and really want to bring Joy to an enthusiastic 
student of the Orehidaceae, then the farther afield you go, the 
£,rou,cer the chances for novelties. Perhaps we can add a few more 
gems to the realm of, 
)rchidace 
1 am rather surprised to find that Panama and Costa Rica 
although simply geographical names have so far yielded entirely 
dlxferent species. Of course, there are wide r nging species 
{these I tie it you avoid), but aside from these, the orchids 
of Cartago and the "hills east of Panama" are entirely different. 
This is interesting and very significant. 
i.Ir, Chittenden has promised to help Standiey in every way 
possible toward a good haul of orchids. Then Standley arrives, 
I hope you will smother him with specimens, allowing him Jygt 
