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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 268. 67.05.15a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-05-15 [67.05.15a]. 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//letters/1860-9/1867/67-05-15a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

15/5/67.
The fruits of , dear Dr Hooker, may give your garden a new conifer.
1
See also M to [J. Hooker], May 1867 (in this edition as 67-05-00f). M described in B64.02.04, p. 86.
This species is as yet nowhere in cultivation. The fruit of I have now for the first time ripe .
2
M gave the details of the fruit in B68.12.01, p. 252, under Atkinsonia ligustrina, but slightly differently from the description transcribed below.
I do not doubt it will germinate! The character of 4 cotyledons appears extraordinar, yet we must not value it too highly, until the cotyledons of many Loranths have been counted.
3
The text ends on the back of the folio, near the top of the page, without valediction. The text that follows here is filed as f. 19 of the guard-book. It may have been sent at a different time, but is included here on the basis of the mention of four cotyledons.
Fructus tripterus, fragili-coriaceus (haud crustaceus), pollicem latus (alis inclusis), e[a]s Dodonaearum quarun dam simulans; divisiones formam semirenatam praebentes — Semen unicum, acute trigonum — Albumen amygdalcuum haud sulcatum. Embryo rectus, cylindraceus, fere dimidium albuminis aequans, axilis. Cotyledones quaternae , lineari-semicylindricae, circiter ⅔"' longae, radicula vix breviores.
4
N. floribunda was very briefly described in R. Brown (1831), p. 17. It is described in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 3, p. 387.