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69.11.28
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Phajus Bernaysi
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Lewis Bernays, 1869-11-28. 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/1860-9/1869/69-11-28-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026
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Letter not found. For the text given here, see ‘New indigenous plant’, in the report
of the meeting of the Quensland Acclimatisation Society held on 17 December 1869,
in Brisbane courier, 18 December 1869, p. 5 (B69.12.05). The item is headed: ‘Extract from letter from
Dr. F. von Mueller to Mr. L. A. Bernays, of date November 28, 1869’. It is introduced
as follows: ‘Mr. Bernays said he wished to bring under the notice of the society a
matter of some interest. It would be remembered that he made an expedition to the
islands of the bay [i.e. Moreton Bay, Qld] some short time ago, and brought back some
plants. One of them, he thought at the time was a new one, but he did not announce
it as such until he had submitted it to Dr. Mueller. He had done so, and would read
the following extract from the Doctor’s letter’.
Today I have spent a part of my leisure in examining your yellow-flowered phajus.
The flower sent left me in doubt about some part of its labellum; nevertheless, I
have very little hesitation in pronouncing your plant as specifically distinct from
the three hitherto known Australian species. It would also appear that yours differs
from the twenty Indian and Chinese species hitherto known. I am, however, unable to
draw up from the material before me a good diagnosis; but feel justified in giving
it a name, and am glad to distinguish it as '
'.
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Phajus bernaysii was published in Reichenbach (1873), with the name attributed to 'Dr Rowland'; see
notes to L. Bernays to M, November 1869 (in this edition as 69-11-00c).