17/8/59
Dear Prof Harvey
This proof is drawn off to day;1 it is yet to be emended upon some details of the analysis. Only recently I obtained male flowers of it, which prove this plant to be a n.g. distinct from Cocculus.2 It occurs also at Parramatta. I do not know whether Miers had it, if so he named it only.
Yours truly,
Ferd Mueller.
Cocculus
A plate captioned Sarcopetalum Harveyanum and numbered 'Supplemental Pl III' is filed with the letter. A modified version of the figure, with the same plate number, was published in B62.03.03, where the new genus was described on p. 26 and the species S. harveyanum on p. 27.
M had listed without description the name Cocculus harveyanus in the 'Systematic index' in B54.10.01, p. 9. M's main label on the specimen with which the letter and plate are filed is 'Cocculus Harveyanus, | Ferd Mueller | Brodribb River | Victoria.' A packet of seeds is labelled 'Cocculus Harveyanus FM | Snowy Rivr. Gippsland | F. Mueller'.
Image at JSTOR Global plants, https://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.tcd0009844?page=2 (accessed 23 July 2019).
Please cite as “FVM-59-08-17,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on