The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Parramatta ¶ April 28/68. ¶ My dear doctor, ¶ ¶ I am much obliged for the kind article from the Launceston paper. ¶ I forwarded last week some seeds of ¶ Angophora ¶ ¶ cordata ¶ : I will send mor...

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RB MSS M46, Library Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 68.04.28a

Plant names

Angophora cordata
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Eleusine
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Flacourtia
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Hoya
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Villarsia parnassifolia
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Preferred Citation:

William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1868-04-28 [68.04.28a]. 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/1860-9/1868/68-04-28a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS found with a specimen of Pereskia aculeata (MEL 2329885).

Parramatta

NSW.

April 28/68.

My dear doctor,

I am much obliged for the kind article from the Launceston paper.

The article has not been identified.

I forwarded last week some seeds of Angophora cordata : I will send more by and by. The seeds of Villarsia came from the V. parnassifolia of the Manly Swamps.

NSW.

Will you please give tell

sic.

me whether the enclosed grass from the Darling is an ?

I am very much puzzled about the plant of which I enclose a specimen. It is growing in a friend's garden near Parramatta, & is said to be a native of China. It has a straggling habit, leaves rather fleshy, alternate, with two spines under the petiole, or one on each side axillary. The flowers are white, the petals spreading, stamens very numerous & unequal, style long and thick with four or five parted stigma. The flowers grow on the tops of little branches, and below each flower there are many small leaves, forming a kind of involucre. I am not sure whether the seeds ever ripen here, but I fancy the seed vessel has a solitary seed, & the exterior has spines. The flower does not seem to have any calyx, or rather it has about eight sepals & no corolla. Is it a , or ? Or is

it omitted?

possible that the flowers are abortive from appearing at the autumnal season instead of the spring.

I feel very anxious about the plant, as I never saw any one like it elsewhere, & I am told that the late Mr Fearon brought it with him from China. The leaves are similar to some of the s , & Mrs Fearon always called it , but of course this is incorrect

I hope you will be able to throw some light on the subject.

Yours very sincerely

W. Woolls