The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: We know 2 or 3 species of Citrus as peculiar to Eastern Australia, and Mr. Baeuerlen found a large Citrus fruit drifted down from the upper part of the Fly River in New Guinea, where, therefore, perha...

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90.11.00e

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1890-11 [90.11.00e]. 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/1890-6/1890/90-11-00e-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from 'A giant lemon of Fiji', Leader, 8 November 1890, p. 15. The article is based on a letter from a correspondent in Fiji, and describes a large fruit, the identity of which is uncertain. The article states:

Baron von Mueller has been communicated with on the subject, and is endeavoring to obtain a leafy, flowering branch and a ripe fruit for examination, so that we shall probably know all about it ere long; but without this double material it is, of course, impossible to say whether the tree is a form of a known species or an endemic specifically distinct congener.

The quotation from M given here is introduced by 'Mr. Horne [in Horne (1881)] adds that the Shaddock and Lemon are in a wild state more common than any other kind of tree in Fiji. On the other hand Baron von Mueller says:—'.

We know 2 or 3 species of as peculiar to Eastern Australia, and Mr. Baeuerlen found a large fruit drifted down from the upper part of the Fly River in New Guinea, where, therefore, perhaps also some may be indigenous.