Ferdinand von Mueller

9/7/84

Herewith, dear Sir Joseph, I beg to send you the only specimen of a very beautiful species of Dendrobium, which I have from Fiji, where it was gathered as a great rarity by Dr Lucas,

1

See T. P. Lucas [1884], dated from the review in Sydney morning herald, 20 October 1884, p. 5.

a medical friend of mine in Melbourne who recently went on a recreation tour to Fiji. It is not contained in Seemann's work;

2

Seemann (1865-73).

but as two species are mentioned in Horne's volume,

3

Horne (1881).

D. Gordonii & D. Hornei, it may be one of these two, and they may since have been described in some publication not accessible to me.

4

There is a vertical blue pencil line in the margin of the MS next to volume . . . to me.

Descriptions by S. Le M. Moore of

Dendrobium gordoni

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and D. hornei were published in J. G. Baker (1883), pp. 372 and 373 respectively.

I venture therefore, to send the description of this one in msc.,

5

MS not found.

and should the species not yet have appeared in a diagnostic form, perhaps you kindly will give it publicity through the L.S.

6

Linnean Society.

or Mr Britten's journal.

7

James Britten; Journal of botany.

To Mr Britten I am under promise for some contribution since some time. If you have the plant from Mr Horne in Kew, would you then kindly return this my only specimen.

8

return … specimen is underlined in blue pencil in the MS. There is a specimen of D. gordonii in Melbourne (MEL 569473), noted by M as collected by 'Dr Lucas' and accompanied by a slip of paper with the comment: 'to be returned to F. M.'.

Even if this should be D. Gordoni or D. Hornei, it would be well to publish my description after alteration of the specific name.

9

J. Hooker to M, 31 August 1884 (in this edition as 84-08-31a), confirms the identification as

Dendrobium gordoni

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