Botanical Museum 
October 7, 1941 
Dear Dick: 
I tbink we have some sort of a record now. An orchid 
collected in the paramo near Bogo|sd on Sept. 25 is described 
in Cambridge, Mass, on October 7 as a new species. 
First the orchids. The Oncidium I .ave not bothered 
with because better specimens will come when you send 
your plants up. No. 1025 (is that number right?- it seems 
very small for all of the collecting that you have done) 
is Pachyphyllum Schulte sil L. Wms. n. sp. This is one of 
my favorite genera and ^ love to determine them. I hope 
that you can find a lot of them. I think this one is 
about the smallest of the genus although there is one 
that has smaller flowers,- about half the size of these. 
I wonder if Dugand would be interested in a paper for 
Caldesia? I have a number.of things that I have thought 
of getting together and sending down there. Most of them 
from specimens collected by Cuatrecasas. I have a lot of 
his stuff on my desk now, 
I have already written to Patino and Kaufmann in 
Guatemala and Chaipas. X will write to Cortes today. 
I will write in Spanish in case that he does not understand 
•English. If you see him again explain this and my poor 
Spanish. I have not had an article from him in the Bulletin 
but I did have seme fine pictures from Rafael Restrepo 
who has a collection of orchids near Meddlifn. 
Sounds like you having a swell time down there and 
I should certainly like to be down there with you. 
Of course we should like to have Halbinger serve as 
agent for the orchids of Mexico if it ever comes out. 
It is not even started yet and it was to go on the first of 
Septembe r. 
Things move along here as usual, slowly. Morrell 
off somewhere for a while. 
With my regards, 
