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Physical location:

ML MSS.562, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 75.10.30

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1875-10-30. 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/1870-9/1875/75-10-30-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

30/10/75.
Yesterday, dear Mr Ramsay, I have received from Mr Walter
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Carl (Charles) Walter.
good flowering specimens of the Dendrobium from the Duke of York's Island.
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New Guinea.
These leave no doubt, that it is merely a variety of D. antennatum of Lindt from New Guinea, the inner sepals being some what shorter and broader than in the typic form. The species—, so far as I am aware—, is as yet nowhere under culture.
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller.