The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Botanic gardens Buitenzorg ¶ Java, 28/4. 72 ¶ My dear Dr von Müeller, ¶ ¶ With the first oppertunity I send you some plants from New-Guinea, collected by Mr Teysmann, and I will be much pleased when ...

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RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 72.04.28

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Araucaria
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Areca macrocalyx
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Caryota furfuracea ß caudata
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Preferred Citation:

Rudolph Scheffer to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1872-04-28. 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/1870-9/1872/72-04-28-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

MS found among a bundle of letters extracted from the collections at MEL; no further details available. MS annotation by M: 'Answ. 10/9/72 and before'.

Botanic gardens Buitenzorg

Now Bogor, Java.

Java, 28/4. 72

My dear Dr von Müeller,

With the first oppertunity I send you some plants from New-Guinea, collected by Mr Teysmann, and I will be much pleased when you will give me a list of the names, after having determined them.

I am sorry that I send you only a very few plants, but there are no other members of the Australian typical families, found in New-Guinea. It seems that N. G. is much more related to the Moluccas as to Australia.

I am working up a list of the plants of New-Guinea, that are hitherto known, but it is an exception when I find any australian form.

I had a new , gathered by Mr Teysmann in the small island Gébèh near Halmahaira.

Halmahera, Indonesia.

I have already described it in a paper, just given to the press.

moluccanum, in Scheffer (1873), p. 419 (paper dated January 1872).

The genus Drymophloeus of Zippelius is very little known and in the garden I have some but very young specimens, and I have no duplicates in the Herbarium.

The palms of New-Guinea, gathered by Mr Teysmann are:

Mart.

Bl.

Miq. (an eadem cum Drymophloeo angustifolia

or the same as Drymophloeus angustifolia.

Miq.?)

Drymophloeus? paradoxus Scheff.

Caryota furfuracea Bl. ß caudata

Zipp.

Blume.

I believe that the distinctive character of Drymophloeus are: male calyx imbricate, anthers versatile, albumen not ruminate; but I believe also that not all the species, attributed now to this genus, belong to one genus. Perhaps it contains also some species of Kentia.

Folia praemorsa et oblique truncata

Leaves bitten and obliquely truncated.

is perhaps also a character.

As all the plants, collected by Mr Teysmann, do belong to our museum, it was not required to ask him.

I beg you to be so kind as to return the one Myrtaceous plants, on the label of which is written: remittendrum.

to send back.

It is an uniqum.

unicum?

You will do me great pleasure in sending me any quantity of spec, yielding good timber, that you can spare.

Sincerely yours

Scheffer

Seeds of and will be most wellcome!