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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-1890, f. 124. 84.10.31

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1884-10-31. 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/84-10-31>, accessed September 11, 2025

31/10/84.
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Annotated by J. Hooker: Dec 31 Sent sample of Myoporum & [Eremophila] & [Hymenophyllum] JH. See J Hooker to M, 31 December 1884 (in this edition as 84-12-31b).
In preparing the Monography of
Myoporinae

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B86.13.21.
dear Sir Joseph, and revising the almost completed drawings for the lithographer, I find that I have no specimen of
Myoporum brevipes

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, though the plant became solely known from my collections.
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See Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, p. 6. The locality record is given as From M Douall Stuart s journey into the interior .
Possibly (but not probably) specimens of it may have been mislaid, as I was so crammed up in my Museum til recently a few £100 were spent to add an iron annex. Could a leaf flower and fruit of this Myoporum be spared me from Kew? The same wish I would like to express in reference to
Eremophila leucophylla

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The passage could a leaf . . . Kew? is marked in the left margin of the MS by a vertical line. Although there were very few specimens at Kew, a fragment of M. brevipes and a specimen of the Eremopohila were sent: see J Hooker to M, 31 December 1884 (in this edition as 84-12-31b) and M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 28 April 1885 (in this edition as 85-04-28a).
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.