Villarsia capitata was illustrated in the Botanical magazine, plate 6420, in the part dated 1 April 1879. The accompanying notes state: 'For the seeds of this pretty plant, the Royal Gardens are indebted to Baron von Mueller'.
The sheet is annotated on the back in pencil: 38 | 81 | 91 | 93.
The addressee is attributed on the basis of the editorship of the Botanical magazine at this date; the fragment is dated assuming that the earliest probable date the relevant part of the Botanical magazine could have arrived in Melbourne is mid-to-late June 1879.
Please cite as “FVM-79-06-00c,” 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