Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 84.05.14

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-05-14. 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/1880-9/1884/84-05-14-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Found with a specimen of
Bulbophyllum purpurascens

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(MEL 1540828).
Government Botanists Office
Museum May 14th 1884
Dear Baron Mueller
I have to thank you for the 9th Decade of your Excellent work on the Gums
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B83.04.04.
and also for the first Annual Supplt of the very useful Census of A. Plants
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B84.03.06
Re. the
Dischidia Rafflesiana

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Wall. Do you intend this name to take the place of D. Timorensis — You may remember that years ago I sent ours of Cape York (the one which bears pitchers) to you as D. Rafflesiana but you gave me the name of D. Timorensis do you now make these two plants identical? Also is the
Stenotaphrum dimediatum

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Bro
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Stenotaphrum dimidiatum Brongn.?
identical with S. americanum Schrank. I think you will agree to your
Bulbophyllum Taylori

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being placed in Dendrobium.
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Bailey transferred M's Bulbophyllum taylori to Dendrobium in Bailey (1885a), p. 88.
My name of D. uniflos will of course lapse. The little Bulbophyllum I wrote you about I have called B. purpurascens
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See Bailey (1885a), p. 88.
— by the bye is Fitzgeralds figure of B. Shepherdi
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R. Fitzgerald (1875-94), vol. 1, part 5, plate [10].
correct? I never saw the plant and when I first got this new one thought it that species I have been very unwell for some time and am starting for the country for a few days hoping your health is still improving believe me very dear Friend
Your faithfully
F. M. Bailey