Orchid Herbarium of Oakes Ames 
Botanical Museum, Harvard University 
Oxford Street. Cambridge 38, Massachusetts 
Feb . 5 , 1957 
Dear Leslie: 
I am wondering if you would object to my including the 
new Erythrodes in a second paper of miscellanies on Trini¬ 
dad orchids, under your name and exactly as written by 
you, of course. There would be two advantages in this. 
It would keen Trinidad things together. Further, Smith 
has finally almost finished a wonderful drawing of it. It 
would be easier for me to pay for this (and it will be ex¬ 
pensive, as he has put some time on it) if nublished in 
the Museum. Also in this Leaflet, we might together make 
the transfer of Trizeuxis pygmaea to Cuekettia, which you 
pointed out and with which I am in agreement. There are a 
number of new records, etc. that have come in since my 
last paner, so all together it would be worthy of a second 
one. 
I ain also wondering if you would be willing to heln out 
Charles and me by putting nrovisional names on the Mutis 
plates of Stelis, Lepanthes and Pleurothallis drawings. As 
you know, we are plugging away on these dates and I would 
like to get the entire set of 285 roughly determined so 
that Charles could go to Madrid perhaos this Soring and 
anyway before Franco falls I Mr. Franco will put up the 
money for the trip. Charles must see the originals with 
colour, etc. to be sure in many cases. Now, if you'd be 
willing to devote a little of your free time to this, I'd 
send you the plates. In return, I can promise you for your 
own herbarium a complete set of the colour plates of all 
285 orchids when the volumes are published. 
We have negative photostats of the orchids in several of 
the Linnean volumes which I am putting away for you when 
you come down. These were done when we released several of 
the volumes to Mrs. Ames, and we are binding jtp the posi¬ 
tives for our library, but the negs. are also just as use¬ 
ful 
I am making a slight change in your Erythrodes description, 
as Smith and I discovered a little apicule on the lip which 
you did not mention in the description. I am asking Vienna 
to loan us the type material in Aganisia, as I am trying to 
do this little genus find, Acacallis ) and it seems to me 
that A. coerulea must be called A. fimbriata, if, as I sus¬ 
pect, they are the same. 
When will you be coming down this way? 
Sincerely 
