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GRG 19/391, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide. 91.09.09

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Nicholas Holtze, 1891-09-09. 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/1890-6/1891/91-09-09-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

9/9/91.
This day, dear Mr Holtze, arrived your and your brothers
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Waldemar Holtze.
plants in best state. They are nice specimens. Within the next days I will write down the names of most and communicate them to you. The one with two-colored spike is probably
Neptunia spicata

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. I will see. Some other of your plants can be named in honor of Earl Kintore.
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The Earl of Kintore, Governor of South Australia 1889-95, visited Darwin in April 1891, then returned overland across the continent to Adelaide. No plant named by M for Kintore or his family name, Keith-Falconer, has been found.
Do you like, as your father did, joining the great Royal hortic. Soc. of England?
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Nomination forms for the Royal Horicultural Society have not survived.
as F.R.H.S.? It costs only £2.-.- annually for which you obtain the Society's publications free. I will gladly propose you.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Is the fruit of the Brachychiton with large red flowers (B. paradoxus or B. ramiflorus) hairy or smooth (glabrous) outside? Bentham seems to have given the description of a different fruit under B. ramiflorus.
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Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, p. 227, where the fruit was described as 'glabrous outside'.
Is it of large size?