flovember 224, 1920, 
My dear 2r. Schlechtar; 
Tour good letter of October 9th came 
to my hand about two -weeka ago, but I have boon so pressed 
with University work and. instruction that I have been unable 
to settle down to answer it in detail. 
"ith regard to the Oncidium from Flori¬ 
da I agree with you that it is not to be confused with £, 
sphaoelaUtuu I onci rant over it with Rolfs, but he woo of the 
opinion that it would be unwise to attempt an identification 
until we had seen some of the obscure species preserved in 
the sealed Beichenbachi&n herbarium. Since that time I have 
simply kept the material in mine as one of those- problems 
for which a solution wojtld some day be found, 
I have been over your outline of Pog- 
onia. Your key needs revision where the persistent perianth 
of Begonia fTriphora) pen&ula is concerned. For this reason: 
I sent to Connecticut late in the autumn for fruiting speci¬ 
mens and I found that the perianth, while it tends to persist 
as in Arethusa, is sometimes wanting at fruiting time, ’"hen I 
wrote to you the first time about this character I had not 
seen sufficient material. 
I am just about ready to settle down 
to work on some group that X can finish up promptly. As yet I 
have not completed the task of moving rag herbarium from the 
country to the city, but I fully expect to get everything in 
hand next week. Then I intend to co-operate with you to the 
fullest extent of ray powers. I have temporarily misplaced 
the manuscript of Grobya. I had it in hand when I was packing 
up my materials for transference to my Boston house. I either 
put it v«ith papers that war a overlooked when I moved, or I 
have It here in some place that I have not searched, 1 am sorry 
about this as I wanted to give the manuscript into the hands of 
some printer for a trial proof, I am now planning to goto Barth 
Easton next week and while thore I must make a concentrated 
forage among my laboratory papers. 
To-morrow 1 will send you the sixth 
volume of Grchidaceae, It. came from the printer recently and 
i am now ready to distribute copies to my friends. I think you 
will be pleased with the Mt. Kinabalu orchids and with the 
other species that make up the book. There are twenty-one 
plates to help you out where tho descriptions may not give all 
that is necessary for an identification. I am reserving for 
you SET MO. QMS of the Mt. Kinabalu orchids. That should be 
very welcome news as this sat is a very good representation 
of the collections made by Clemons ana contains many new spec¬ 
ies. 
