The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 3/11/87. ¶ ¶ As I am just passing the "Key to the system of Vict. plants" through the press, ¶ the early issue of which is demanded from me, dear Mr Cheeseman, I am much harrassed just now, the dail...

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Plant names

Abutilon Julianae
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Abutilon auritum
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Boehmeria australis
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Bryonia affinis
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Bryonopsis Pancheri
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Canavallia Baueriana
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Canavallia obtusifolia
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Elaeodendron australe
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Elaeodendron curtipendulum
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Euodia litoralis
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Hibiscus insularis
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Kentia
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Panicum Norfolkianum
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Pittosporum bracteolatum
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Rhopalostylis
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Cheeseman, 1887-11-03. 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/1880-9/1887/87-11-03-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

3/11/87.

As I am just passing the "Key to the system of Vict. plants" through the press,

The volume was not published for another year, B88.11.02.

the early issue of which is demanded from me, dear Mr Cheeseman, I am much harrassed just now, the daily routine-work in so large a place as Melbourne taking up always so much time, that I make but slow progress with the new book. Until January I shall not be free to aid you much, but I may here observe at once, that the Canavallia fruit, sent by you, is undoubtedly that of C. obtusifolia, from which C Baueriana is not specifically distinct

The true has cordate leaves; your specimens are not in fruit, so the determination will be difficult

Your Palm is a true . I will compare it carefully with B. Baueri I do not admit the genus

E. littoralis?

are species endemic to Norfolk-Island or to islets close bye; but I regard as a var of E. australe while ( ) is — so far as known — restricted to Norfolk-Islands & New Caledonia, and is not specifically distinct from A. auritum.

Of I can give no account

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller