The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 15/4/90. ¶ ¶ Allow me to ask, dear Mr Dyer, whether the Alsophila Capensis, as occuring in (or recorded from) S. Afr., the Sunda Islands (and perhaps elsewhere in insular India) and in S. America has...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, f. 318. 90.04.15a

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Alsophila Capensis
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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1890-04-15 [90.04.15a]. 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/1890-6/1890/90-04-15a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS black-edged; M's brother-in-law George Doughty died on 26 March 1890.

15/4/90.

Date stamped Royal Gardens Kew 26. May. 90. Annotated by Thiselton-Dyer: And 13.7.90 (letter not found).

Allow me to ask, dear Mr Dyer, whether the , as occuring in (or recorded from) S. Afr., the Sunda Islands (and perhaps elsewhere in insular India) and in S. America has undisputably been established, by comparing in Conservatories or in bot Museums also the stems from these three regions.

See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 27 March 1890.

Regardfully

your Ferd. von Mueller.

Annotation by J. Baker, left page of f. 318 front:

We have in Herb. Kew. good specimens of the Brazilian Hemitelia capensis from Gardner & Glazion, shewing both normal and […] [massed] pinnae, quite undistinguishable in any way from the Cape specimens. Our specimen of the Javan plant, from Blume, is a mere scrap, but shews [cutting] & sori. I am not aware that either the Brazilian or Javan plant has been introduced into cultivation.

J.G.B

May 26 1890