The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 26/8/82, ¶ ¶ Best thanks, dear Mr Buchanan, ¶ for the sending of Phyllachnes &c, also for the sketch of flower of Epiblema. ¶ Could you not spare ¶ even one ¶ flower of the plant for me, to disse...

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Physical location:

A644, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 82.08.26

Plant names

Epiblema
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Phyllachnes
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to John Buchanan, 1882-08-26. 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/82-08-26>, accessed September 11, 2025

26/8/82,

Best thanks, dear Mr Buchanan,

John Buchanan (1819-1898).

for the sending of &c, also for the sketch of flower of .

Sketch not found.

Could you not spare even one flower of the plant for me, to dissect and carefully compare? Is it gone to England, to be worked out? Any how the plant there interests me much in connection with Australian vegetation.

In Buchanan (1882), pp. 356-7, an orchid collected by H. L. T. Travers was identified as the Australian grandiflorum .

Herewith a proofsheet of the geographic & chronologic census of all Australian species of plants, of which work the dicotyledoneae will appear in 1882.

B83.03.04.

Can you not do something similar for the N.Z. setting out the provinces as I have done the colonies. I would gladly help you in the chronologic data.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

If you asked Mr Travers, I feel sure he would let me have one of the flowers of his , and if in comparison I should find any distinctions, it could be named after that Gentleman.

No named for Travers has been found (IPNI accessed 20 March 2022).