The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 24/4/81. ¶ ¶ Before I forget, I would like to mention to you, dear Prof Tate, that I have just received some plants from Mr Lattorf ¶ near Spencers Gulf, ¶ whom I asked to collect. Among a consider...

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Achyranthes australis
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1881-04-24. 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/81-04-24>, accessed September 11, 2025

24/4/81.

Before I forget, I would like to mention to you, dear Prof Tate, that I have just received some plants from Mr Lattorf

i.e. Lattorff. Note alternative spelling below. See also M to O. Tepper, 22 April 1881 (in this edition as 81-04-22a).

near Spencers Gulf,

SA.

whom I asked to collect. Among a considerable lot of specimens, kindly procured by him, are as new for S.A.:

Zaleya decandra, Burmann

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	a good genus .

, Bth.

Both these names are ticked in the margin.

All the others are well known from the interior of S.A. I will keep you posted up on any other additions, as they arrive or become examined.

A few of the Rev. Mr Kempe's I have laid aside, til the Exhib.

International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1880-1.

work shall have closed.

What plant was it, mentioned by me, as omitted in your list some months ago? I forgot.

MS annotation by Tate: 'Christmas '80 | Sebaea albideflora | Melothria Muelleri | 3/2/81'. See M to R. Tate, 25 December 1880 and M to R. Tate, 3 February 1881.

Can you still spare a copy or two of the Census?

Tate (1880).

I like to have one bound with interfoliation for corrections & additions. Thus you have not distinguished between the two Hookers always &c.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller

Among Lattorps

Lattorff; note alternative spelling above.

plants is also the introduced L.

The Rev. H. Kempe found (Hook) on the Finke-River

NT.

also , RBr

Both species names are ticked in the margin.