The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 24/2/91 ¶ ¶ Quite recently, dear Sir Joseph, I wrote to you about a supposed Wendlandia with basal insertion of stamens. ¶ As perhaps an example in the opposite way I like to send you, what may be a...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, ff. 337-8. 91.02.24

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1891-02-24. 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/91-02-24>, accessed September 11, 2025

24/2/91

Quite recently, dear Sir Joseph, I wrote to you about a supposed with basal insertion of stamens.

See M to J. Hooker, 22 February 1891.

As perhaps an example in the opposite way I like to send you, what may be a , altho' the stamens are terminal. Can there be a dimorphism in some of these plants? I know such to occur similarly in species of within , but in that case the female corolla looses its tube. My material in this instance is very scanty. The ovulary of this doubtful has two ovules in each cell. Fruit I have not — not even young. The preflorescence of the corolla-lobes is straight-valvate.

Always regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

According to your observations the dimorphismus of does not seem to affect the position of the stamens,

Bentham & Hooker (1862–83), vol. 2, part 1, p. 119.

so that may not be subject to variation in , contrary to what we see in many other orders of plants.