Ferdinand von Mueller

20/11/91

Since several days, dear Miss Henley, I owe you a letter, to thank you for the second sending of plants, which greatly helped on the summer show. Excuse the shortcoming, but I was not quite well and overwhelmed with office-work. I shall not put you to more trouble this season. A record of these two shows of native flowers will appear in the "Victorian Naturalist" of December 1891, when special mention will be made of the rare kinds also in your valuable sendings.

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Brief accounts of the exhibitions at the October and November meetings were published in Victorian naturalist, vol. 8, November 1891, p. 98, and December 1891, p. 115. The formal report on 'The wild flower exhibits' is in the January 1892 issue, pp. 132-4, and mentions 'Passiflora cinnabarina (the Victorian Passion Flower), a rare specimen, by Miss Henley, from Wangaratta'.

It was with pleasurable surprise, that I saw in the last lot the Victorian Passion-flower ,

Passiflora cinnabrina

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P. cinnabarina?

Is it really a native in your locality, or did you perhaps take the specimens from a cultivated plant, as I distributed it in former years as a handsome climber for horticulture. Only once did I find this Passiflora wild, 1860, on the banks of the Genoa,

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Genoa River, far eastern Vic.

trailing over rocks; but I have specimens also from Shoalhaven.

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NSW.

Should you therefore have found this Passiflora wild in your neighbourhood, it ought to be specially mentioned in the "Vict. Naturalist" under your honored name,

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No further report has been found.

also the circumstances, under which it occurs.