Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS Let 162/17, item 14, Mitchell Library, Sydney. M68.03.00

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ernst Heyne to Messrs Baptist & Sons, 1868-03 [M68.03.00]. 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/mentions/selected/M68-03-00-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS annotations: ‘26th march’ followed by an indecipherable word; ‘10.187’ in a different hand. Heyne was in Sydney in early 1868; see M to J. Grant, 14 September 1868, and Argus, 24 April 1868, p. 5. A consignment from Sydney of 8 cases and a bundle of planks addressed to Heyne arrived in Melbourne per City of Melbourne on 6 April. It is thus highly likely that he was in Sydney in late March, as the annotation would seem to indicate.
Gentlemen
Accompanied by Mr Carron of the Bot. Gard. I had this morning the pleasure of looking over your fine nursery and I can assure you I was perfectly astonished to see so valuable a collection brought together as you have got. I only regret I had no opportunity of expressing to you personally the pleasure my visit afforded to me.
One of my objects in visiting Sydney being to effect if possible some exchanges of plants[,]
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editorial addition.
I left with your foreman a list of a few which I brought with me and asked him to select such as he thought might be of use to you. Should you find any amongst those mentioned in the list which you desire to add to your collections you will please to inform me of it and I shall be happy to deliver them to you on calling at Mr Moore's where the plants are at present. Besides the above we have a fine stock of conifers and other plants in Melbourne a great many of which I do not see mentioned in your catalogue and I am commissioned by Dr. Mueller to offer such as we can spare in exchange for what I might deem desirable for our establishment. Trusting you will not object to enter into communication (and exchanges) with us I venture to enclose a list of what I think will be an acquisition for our Department and beg you to be good enough, should you accede to my proposal to send such of the plants as you may have to spare to Mr. Moore of the Botan. Garden in the course of this week. One or two of the kinds named in my list we have got already but only in single specimens.
Before my departure from here I hope I may have the pleasure of meeting you in the mean time allow me to sign
Your
obedient
E B Heyne
Assist. to Dr. Mueller
Dir. Bot. Gard. Melbourne
Messrs Baptist & Sons
Desiderata of the Melbourne Botanic Garden
Sanseviera variegata

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Sansevieria ? S. variegate not in IPNI (accessed 26 January 2020).
Woodwardsia
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Woodwardia ?
Orientalis
Lindsaya retusa

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Goldfussia glomerata

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Hypericum floribundum

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" oblongum
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H. oblongifolium ?
Diospyros kaki

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" Lotus
Vangueria edulis

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Scheeria mexicana

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(the genus is unknown to me but that is the name I understood your foreman giving to a fine Gesneriaceous plant of the habit of an
Achimenes

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Alnus Capensis

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Not in IPNI (accessed 26 January 2020).
Beleperone
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Beloperone ?
oblongifolia
Burchellia Capensis

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Buxus argentea

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Curopegia
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Ceropegia ?
elegans
Grevillea Forsteri

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(though we have this noble plant 1 or 2 additional ones would be acceptable)
Jackaranda mimosaefolia

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Laurus Borbonia

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Libonia floribunda

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Poroqueria longifolia

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Posoqueria ? P. longifolia not in IK.
Any of Your
Rhopala

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Sedum adianthifolium

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Not in IPNI (accessed 26 January 2020).
Our collection of
Camellia

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s being very small I would feel obliged by your adding to the above a selection from the splendid one you have, leaving the choice to yourself.
Should you have any rare tropical or subtropical fruittrees or other useful plants not mentioned in your Catalogue they would also be gladly received.
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The list that follows, which begins on a new page, is evidently the list of plants on offer from the Melbourne Botanic Garden to which Heyne refers.
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Pinus longifolia

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Sabal Palmetto

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Solanum horridum

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Ligustrum

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sp Hong Kong
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Aralia Schefflera

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Pinus Haageana

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Cinchona officinalis

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Pittosporum Zeylanicum

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Ilex cassinoides

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Quercus Suber

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Pinus Smithiana

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" ponderosa
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Tea plants
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Rhus undulata

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Celastrus angulatus

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Jatropha Manihot

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Panax Murrayi

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Medeola asparagoides

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Cneorum tricoccum
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Cneorum tricoccon ?
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Callitris columellaris

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Hibiscus pedunculatus

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Pinus balsamea

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" Frazeri
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P. fraseri ?
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Tetragonia implexicoma

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