The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 15/5/67. ¶ ¶ The fruits of Podocarpus Drouyniana, dear Dr Hooker, may give your garden a new conifer. ¶ This species is as yet nowhere in cultivation. The fruit of Nuytsia floribunda I have now for ...

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

Plant names

Nuytsia floribunda
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Podocarpus Drouyniana
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Preferred Citation:

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.

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 .

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.

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.

N. floribunda was very briefly described in R. Brown (1831), p. 17. It is described in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 3, p. 387.