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Folder 3, box 51, James Hector, correspondence received, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Archives, Wellington. 66.02.13

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to James Hector, 1866-02-13. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/66-02-13>, accessed April 20, 2025

13/2/66.
Dear Dr Hector.
I have recently received two plants from the jungles of East Australia, which form new genera of Proteaceae, unless one should be regarded as a subgenus of Knightia. Unfortunately the account of Knightia by R Brown, Jos. Hooker & Meisner is very imperfect and so the illustration in the Linnean transactions.
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R. Brown (1810a), p. 194 and Tab. 2; J. Hooker (1853-5), p. 219; Meisner (1856), p. 442 or Meisner (1836-43), p. 333.
My own herbarium contains only flowering specimens gathered by the late Dr Sinclair & no fruit. Would it be possible for you to get me then for the sake of comparison some ripe fruit of the N.Z
Knightia excelsa

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?
2
See also M to J. Haast, 13 February 1866 (in this edition as 66-02-13a).
You are aware it is the "Rewa Rewa" of the natives. Seemingly the tree does not occur in the Middle Island,
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i.e. what is currently called the South Island of New Zealand.
but as it is common in the north, you will, I dare say, not find much difficulty in securing the material I need. I have forwarded to you by this mail my list of Austral ferns,
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B66.02.01, pp. 111-42; see also B66.04.03.
from which you will see that Dr Hooker omitted
Gleichenia Hermanni

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&
Schizaea fistulosa

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in his Handbook.
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J. Hooker (1864-7) dealt with the New Zealand ferns on pp. 344-87.
Phragmites

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is also omitted and a few other plants
your attached
Ferd Mueller