North Fasto'n,; Mass. September ?5th, 19C1. 
f/y dear Pr. S'chlecbter: Your letter of September 7th,■ was most Wel¬ 
come!. I had begun to fear that illness had overtaken you, but, it 
would seem that with you, just as with me, interest in work is a 
very effectual silencer in the 1 realm of correspondence 1 . 
Your identification of the Venezuelan Fpidendrum simply sub¬ 
stantiates my final conclusion, Co much for that. 
Surely no better news could come from yop than that, about, the 
Costa Pican duplicates! T am like a child, 1 now, with .regard to Cen¬ 
tral .American material, 1 and promises of specimens from that interesting 1 
and botanical]y historic region come like grains of gold in my corres¬ 
pondence'. Tf you have any regard for me at all g'e-t this Costa Pican 
material under way, 1 and if you have other central American thing’s 
crowd them in. V shall heap blessings :n your head when I receive this 
much de-si red acquisition. And leads me; to ask that you havei the' one 
chosen to make 1 tracing's, concentrate- or that long' list I sent to you in 
August, r have a collection of Guatemalan orchids to work up and I must 
knew what your new things are. 
MOW FOR QUESTTQFF: 
. Where do you place the following' in your schemet of the 1 Spirant heae 
SP irant he 5 firsjrniana Krdnzl. 
Spiranthes brae tie olaria KrSnzl. 
Spirantpes com os a Peichb. f. 
c f iranthes ensifolia Peichb. f. 
Spirantfies lob at a lindl. 
Spirpntp.es Kelsonii free PH . 
Spiranthes forphyri cola Fchltr. 
Spiranthes Rickardeana P'cMtr. 
Spiranthes rubrpcallosa Robins. P Greenm. 
Sp i r a n t ,k e s s e rinvd o PcM t r . 
Spiranthes ferklei PcMtr. 
?. Why is not Cranichis sylvaliea Pich. a Gal. in your list of 
Central American species? 
3, Why is not Craniobis parvilabris Lindl.* in your lists of P'. Am. 
orchids? I' enclose a photograph of what T took to be the type of this 
speb;fe-s. T't seems to me Pc be a Ponthleva, T'f you agree- with me,- then 
we< must make revision. 
4. Why is not Cranichis glandulosa Pich. & Gal. a Fontbieva?' A. Fil¬ 
ler specimen from Orizaba that T‘ have in hand is an unrecorded Fonth- 
ieva from Vexico and in habdst is a counterpart of the Pich. F Gal. type 
in the Fus. Far. Herb. 
