November 8, 1941 
Mr. C. E. Lankester 
Las C<5neavas 
Cartago, Co ta Rica 
Lear Mr. -^ank ester: 
Your last sending, Systeloglossum, has arrived here 
in goes shape. 
The material was a perfectly dried as if you had 
had it in press for a week or two before it was put in the 
mail, ’'lost raaterila sent fresh in letters is drieo by the 
time that it gets here,- or worse still decayed. 
I am glad that you enjoyed the October Bulletin and 
hope that the November one will meet with your approval. 
— I should be more th n happy if you could find the time 
to write me an article about your collections (photos too) 
that could be used jn the Bulletin. 
The plant sent is Systelog lossum acuminatum A. & S. 
This 3s exactly like the type, which you collected, and I 
wonder about your t tatment that it must be the other species 
aa you knew S, acuminatu m. On the label of your 1091, type 
of the above, there is a note "very like my 447 but quite 
different in flowers’*. I do not know what your number 447 
is but it is not among Ifce Systeloglossi bore. Could you 
be thinking of that, whatever it was, as being S. acuminatum ? 
I have never seen the Day notes and pictures as Lew. 
Perhaps Ames has. If this stupid war is ever satisfactorily 
concluded perhaps we can all go there again, and then 1 
shall 1 ok them up. 
Harping back to an article, fould not one about 
the wild orchid garden that you are trying to establish 
he of considerable interest? I think it would2 
v/ith my regards, I am, 
Sincerely, 
