Sept. 12, 1946 
Mr. C.II.Lankester, 
Las Co cavas, Gartago, Costa Rica. 
Dear fftrr, Lankester: 
Your letter with its enclosures just came to 
hand on my recent return from my vacation. 
The little lasdevallia proved to he . anura -rSnzl. Thanks 
for the specimen. 
The other specimen with with red tubular flowers I handed 
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to Dr. Lyman Smith of the Gray Herbarium than whom there is no 
better all-round systematist and from the specimen he was unable 
to tell definitely beyond saying that it belongs either to the 
olanaceae or to the Scrophulariaceae. Can you nojr send us a good 
and complete specimen? 
Sincerely and hastily, 
Charles Schweinfurth 
Research ellow in Botany, Harvard University 
