From Eugene Fitzalan   October 1875

Musa No 1 –

I send an additional sample of ripe fruit & young fruit & flower of the Upright Musa – I find that this species very rarely has suckers – the increase being by Seed which grows very freely – as wherever ground has been cleared for a camp it comes up thick all over it. = Hills “Bowenia” has not any ripe flowers but I [...]1

 

Bowenia

Musa

MS cut off, unknown amount of text missing. Annotation by M: ‘M Hillii’.

Please cite as “FVM-75-10-00,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/75-10-00