C. H. Lankester 
MEMORANDUM 
CORREO: AP. 32, CARTAGO 
TELEGRAMAS: PARAiSO 
HACIENDA LAS CONCAVAS 
DULCE NOMBRE 
Cartago, Costa Rica, March 26th del 92 7. 
A Prof Oakes Ames . 
Boston 
.-aso, U L A 
74065 Imp. Alain a 
My dear Ames, 
Mven with flocks of apprentice mistakes, this will he 
easier to read than my stramhotic handwriting,do I hear cheers? 
'he uestion is, Can a Masdevallia he pojmorphic in its 
flowers? Herewith a flower, one of two that have appeared on a plant 
of M.Reichenhachia-na. You have had material & a photo of this plant, 
& heretofore it has only produced flowers,as my ./I0C0, of course the 
prepent available evidence is neithe- satisfactory nor conclusive, 
fS the , ' plant '' is ' a sma11 group brought to me some 4 or 5 years ago 
by Alfredo Sancho from la Estre,.a u* -artago. & may actually contain 
more than one-species, my deduction arises from the fact, that I saw 
riant with flowers like this exhibit, in 'Ingland,labelled H.Heich etc. 
Afpa ‘ n * —n*iv this .is from that section of the group 
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