24/3/62
Dear Dr Hooker.
Dr Hector has brought me your note.2 He seem's a most excellent, promising & zealous investigator of nature, from whom in succession of years we are likely to learn much indeed. I enjoy his acquaintance much. Dr Launder Lindsay3 went home from Sydney without having touched here, a circumstance I much regret. — I have recently looked over Aurantiaceae & find that I have Glycosmis pentaphylla from several parts of East Australia. It fully accords with the Indian plant Mr Black or rather Dr Planchon is quite right to refer my Cookia to a new genus of Rutaceae (or Z[a]nthoxyleae)4 From the enclosed fruit you will observe, that the Acronychia Cunninghami is a true Euodia (subgenus Melicope)
Mr Haast has sent me many plants from New Zealand. I abstain from doing anything with them, as you will be glad to collect supplementary-notes for your N Z flora and as you have the same material yourself. But as an acknowledgement to Haast for having named an alpine torrent after myself near the Hooker River5 I have selected one remarkable ranunculus & put to it Haasts name.6 The fragment enclosed is but small. Some of the [radial] leaves, which are always peltate, are as large as those of a good sized Nelumbium!
Mr Fr Gregory told me when passing that he had sent your worthy father a set of his plants. I received also one. Presuming that amidst the masses of new material from Africa & India you do not care to elucidate them, I shall at once commence on them a report, so that Mr Gregory may have it available when going home in a few weeks.7 He will mark the principle botanic features on the chart. I correctly anticipated that Bartlings Empleurosma is a Dodonaea. Sonder identified it with Dodonaea pinifolia!
Ever yours
Ferd Mueller
Is not Brown's Huegelia Myrtaceous?
Mr F. Gregory will alter in his report, that his Adansonia is Brachychiton.
Acronychia Cunninghami
Adansonia
Aurantiaceae
Brachychiton.
Cookia
Dodonaea pinifolia
Empleurosma
Euodia
Glycosmis pentaphylla
Huegelia
Melicope
Nelumbium
Rutaceae
Zanthoxylea
Please cite as “FVM-62-03-24a,” 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 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/62-03-24a