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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 428. 70.03.28a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1870-03-28 [70.03.28a]. 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/1870-9/1870/70-03-28a-final.odt>, accessed July 19, 2026

28/3/70
Is this the true
Gonolobus viridiflorus

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, dear Dr Hooker? — I raised it from seeds, brought by the Viscountess Canterbury
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Wife of J. H. Manners-Sutton, who was Governor of Trinidad before taking up his post of Governor of Victoria in August 1866 and who succeded to the title of Viscount Canterbury in 1869.
from Trinidad, where however the plant may possibly not be indigenous. I have no good specimen of the typical G. viridiflorus to compare; the plates are not good. Should against my expectations the plant prove new, then her Ladyships name might be given to it.
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MS annotation by D. Oliver: ' Gonolobus nostratus RBr not G. viridiflorus'.
Your regardful
Ferd von Mueller
Your
Cladium tetraquetrum

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is certainly Labillardière
Lepidosperma tetragonum

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. I had many years ago transferred the plant to Cladium as you will see in the manuscripts at Kew
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No publication by M in which he makes this combination has been found. It is probable that it was in the MS sent to Kew and not published by the time W. Hooker closed Hooker's journal of botany and Kew Garden miscellany in December 1857. The MSS have not been found.
Would there be any chance to obtain from West India any seeds of
Aeschynomene viscidula

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& A. sensitiva, through some kind friend.