The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 30/7/76. ¶ ¶ Tell me kindly, dear Mr Ramsay, whether any living plants of the Cape York Caryota (C. Alberti F.v.M) are obtainable in Sydney and if so, at what price. The species was recently describe...

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Physical location:

ML MSS 562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 76.07.30

Plant names

Caryota Alberti
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1876-07-30. 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/1870-9/1876/76-07-30-final.odt>, accessed May 17, 2026

30/7/76.

Tell me kindly, dear Mr Ramsay, whether any living plants of the Cape York Caryota (C. Alberti F.v.M) are obtainable in Sydney and if so, at what price. The species was recently described in Germany from my notes,

H. Wendland & Drude (1875), p. 221-2. M is acknowledged as the author of the name 'in literis ad H. Wendland 1874'; the collector is given as 'Dalmel', in error for 'Daemel'.

and I should like to have a few living plants to send home

I hope you will not be displeased that I trouble you so much, but I really do not know of any one else in Sydney, to whom I could apply in a case like this.

Regardfully

Ferd. von Mueller.