9./1./80.
The W.A. plant, just sent by you, dear Mr Ramsay, is Anigosanthus1 flavida of Redouté. I cultivated it since 1857. I never heard of the intended New Guinea Expedition. Who is the Mr White, to whom you refer?2
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Best salutation & felicitation to new decennium. Have you nothing new of plants from the North?
In the event of my preferring to go to north-east Australia, which months would you advise as the most salubrious or least dangerous. I suppose the cool season would be the time.3
Anigosanthus flavida
Aginozanthos?
Possibly the ornithologist Samuel White, who in 1880 sailed up the east Australian coast and through Torres Strait into the Arafura Sea on a collecting expedition.
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