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Physical location:

A644, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 82.02.13c

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to John Buchanan, 1882-02-13 [82.02.13c]. 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/1880-9/1882/82-02-13c-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

13/2/82.
I am much interested in all that you say in your kind letter of the 3 Febr.,
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Letter not found.
dear Mr Buchanan,
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John Buchanan (1819-1898).
and am beholden to you for the sending of various fruits.
Alectryon

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, long ago reduced by me to
Nephelium

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, has precisely the same beautiful black polished seeds enclosed in a crimson or scarlet aril as several other species of
Nephelium

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, from which it only differs by the maturation of only one cell of the fruit. What has become of young Mr Travers?
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H. H. Travers.
I have lost quite sight of him. Have you characteristic specimens of the Helophyllums & Calthas to spare? If so, would you with your usual generosity let me have a set? I will soon look to the Raoulias, kindly sent by you, but had to finish off arrear work in the Department, which left me no time lately for new work. I am much interested in this
Raoulia

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question and told Hooker so.
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See M to J. Hooker, 20 October 1881.
The cyperaceous plant, to which you allude, I have not received.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
In Orchids I am particularly interested; would you kindly spare me a specimen of your
Epiblema grandiflorum

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for comparison; its reoccurrence in N.Z. is interesting.