Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS B202, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 78.03.06

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Bailey, 1878-03-06. 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/1870-9/1878/78-03-06-final.odt>, accessed June 16, 2026

6/3/78
In looking at your letter of the 16. Febr,
1
Letter not found.
dear Mr Bailey, I see that the
Dendrobium Kennedyi

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is a S. S. Isl.
2
South Sea Island.
species, not therefore one from Queensland. Hence I cannot describe it in the fragmenta, but will do so in the next number of the Papuan plants.
3
The next part of M’s Papuan plants was not issued until 1885 (B85.06.03); Dendrobium cincinnatum is the only Orchid species in that part listed as provided by Bailey, and it had been described by M in B85.05.01 from a cultivated specimen sourced from 'South Eastern New Guinea'. The Dendrobium kennedyi listed in IPNI was described in 1921. The name in this letter is presumably a name suggested by Bailey in the letter not found, but it might not have been what M described as D. cincinnatum.
I must find a Q.L. plant, to name in honor of his Excellency.
4
Presumably Sir Arthur Kennedy, Governor of Qld, 1877-83; M named Cycas kennedyana in his honour in B82.03.01, p. 85.
yours
Ferd von Mueller
Can you not manage to go in the salubrious season once more to the north?