The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ Herewith, dear Prof Cogniaux, I beg to send you two melastom. plants, found on Mt. Yule in British New Guinea, which is 11,000 feet high, and has lately been ascended for the first time by an exped...

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Archives of the Botanic Garden of Belgium, Meise, SP, Correspondences, "Von Mueller". 91.03.28a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Alfred Cogniaux, 1891-03-28 [91.03.28a]. 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/1890-6/1891/91-03-28a-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

MS stamped: 'Coll A. Cogniaux 1916'.

Herewith, dear Prof Cogniaux, I beg to send you two melastom. plants, found on Mt. Yule in British New Guinea, which is 11,000 feet high, and has lately been ascended for the first time by an expedition, sent out by the Victorian geographic Society, of which I am President. As you are just working on , I send these two to you. This is all I have of them, only these fragments.

With regardful remembrance

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

Annotated 'Otanthera bracteata Korth — towards Mount Yule. — Bacca atar-fusca,7-8 m […] Summa ½ mm late' and 'Medinilla Muelleri Cogn. sp. n. — Top of Mount Yule, alt. 11,000'.'

Medinilla Muelleri was described in the addenda to Cogniaux (1891), p. 1195, where M is credited with the communication of the specimens mentioned in the annotation, with the source given as 'Exped. Victorian Geogr. Society'.