The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 7/6/95. ¶ ¶ Encouraged and guided by the excellent figure of Calostema album, ¶ dear Dr Dyer, an other search after bulbs was caused to be made at Turtle Island, ¶ and thus I am enabled to send you...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1891-6, 76. 95.06.07

Plant names

Calostema album
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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1895-06-07. 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/1890-6/1895/95-06-07-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 16. JUL. 95; annotated in black ink by W. Watson: 327/1895 (i.e. register number in Kew Inwards Book of specimens received), in red ink by W. Hemsley: Ackd. 17.7.95 (letter not found), and in black ink by W. Watson on the front of the folio opposite the central margin 2 bulbs- Calostemma album 2 tubers — Dioscorea sp. 1 stem — Crinum sp. seeds Telopea oreades.

7/6/95.

Encouraged and guided by the excellent figure of ,

Calostemma album was illustrated in April 1895 'at the suggestion of Sir F. v Mueller' in Oliver (1891-5), vol. 24, plate 2371, using a specimen collected by Robert Brown in December 1802 and described by him in R. Brown (1810), p. 298.

dear Dr Dyer, an other search after bulbs was caused to be made at Turtle Island,

Off Cape York, Qld.

and thus I am enabled to send you the sorts, this time obtained, and hope you will receive them all right by this weekly mail.

With regardful remembrance your

Ferd. von Mueller.

See also M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 8 June 1895.