10/1/81.1
Before it escapes from my memory dear Prof Tate, I like to mention, that — if not too late, — the following could be added to the lists of plants found on or near the Finke-River2 by the Rev. Mr Kempe:3
Helichrysum (Ozothamnus) Kempei n. sp. allied to H. cassinoides.4
Helipterum incanum D.C.
Millotia Kempei, n. sp.
Helichrysum ambiguum Turcz.
The latter is in your list as Leptorrhynchus ambiguus.5 It is however a Helichrysum of the section of Chrysocephalum as pointed out by me more than 20 years ago, and by no means a Leptorrhynchus. Indeed it is so near to H. semipapposum, that anyone might be apt to take it for a one-headed var. of that plant.
The two new Composites with a few other novelties will receive publicity in Melbourne during this month.6 What arrangements has your R.S. for publication, if any other new S.A. plants should need early issue?
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Turczaninows description of the W.A. Helichr. ambiguum was so defective, that I did fail to identify it with my eastern plant; still he quite correctly placed it in Helichrysum, nor is there anything ambiguous about it.
Chrysocephalum
Helichrysum ambiguum
Helichrysum cassinoides
Helichrysum Kempei
Helichrysum semipapposum
Helipterum incanum
Leptorrhynchus ambiguus
Millotia Kempei
Ozothamnus Kempei
It seems that M mis-dated this letter and that it was actually written in January 1882, the month in which M published his promised descriptions of the new Composites mentioned in the letter. From other letters we know that M was working during December 1881 and January 1882 on specimens received from Kempe; see M to R. Tate, 1 December 1881, and M to R. Tate, 6 January 1882.
NT.
M had published an earlier list, B80.13.13. Tate (1882) includes M's new species as from Hermannsburg, Finke River.
H. cassinioides?
Not in APNI (accessed 23 March 2023).
M described Helichrysum Kempei in B82.01.01, p. 69, and Millotia kempei in B82.01.03, p. 2.
Please cite as “FVM-82-01-10,” 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