Orchid Herbarium of Oakes Ames 
BOTANICAL MUSEUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
OXFORD STREET, CAMBRIDGE 38. MASSACHUSETTS 
May £4, 1956. 
Dear Leslie! 5 
Just a word to let you know that I 
have decided to reduce Pleurothallis 
leptopetala Cogn. to synonymy under 
-P. discoidea Lindl. I think that j?. 
Morrisii may also be the same thing, 
but I am not touching it as it is not 
from Trinidad. I have studied this a 
long time and I feel that there is 
justification for this reduction even 
though there seeips to be some variabi¬ 
lity in lip shape. 
Sincerely 
Richard Evens Schultes 
