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Physical location:

MRS 7/1 minor correspondence - outwards 1883-9, pp. 324-5, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. 84.07.14b

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Joseph Maiden to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-07-14 [84.07.14b]. 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/84-07-14b>, accessed September 11, 2025

14th July [188]4
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editorial addition; the text is from a letter copy book.
Diploglottis Cunninghamii

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(Hook: fil: Gen: nov:) (Genera Plantarum, Benth: & Hook: p. 395
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Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 1, p. 395.
)
or
Cupania Cunninghamii

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(Hook:) (Flora Australiensis, Benth & F.v.M.)
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Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, p. 455.
or ?
Cupania australis

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Not in APNI (accessed 23 April 2020). Sheet K000701564 of Diploglottis cunninghamii at Kew has labels that bear the specific epithet 'australis', apparently based by W. Hooker on A. Cunningham's MS name Stadtmannia australis.
"The Native Tamarind."
Dear Baron Mueller,
I am in a difficulty in regard to this plant. In your Fragmenta (ix. 90)
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B75.11.02.
you make allusion to D. Cunninghamii, but in the "Census" you ignore the Genus Diploglottis altogether,
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M had in fact listed
Diploglottis Cunninghamii

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in his Census; see B83.03.04, p. 24. The genus was also listed in B82.13.08, p. 198.
nor do make mention of C. Cunninghamii. Will you kindly let me know what name you apply to this
Diploglottis Cunninghamii

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of Hook: fil:? I should be very much obliged if you would kindly send me a flowering twig of this tree.
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See J. Maiden to M, 21 July 1884.
Yours truly,
J. H. Maiden.