13/2/82.
I am much interested in all that you say in your kind letter of the 3 Febr.,1 dear Mr Buchanan, and am beholden to you for the sending of various fruits. Alectryon, long ago reduced by me to Nephelium, has precisely the same beautiful black polished seeds enclosed in a crimson or scarlet aril as several other species of Nephelium, from which it only differs by the maturation of only one cell of the fruit. What has become of young Mr Travers? I have lost quite sight of him. Have you characteristic specimens of the Helophyllums & Calthas to spare? If so, would you with your usual generosity let me have a set? I will soon look to the Raoulias, kindly sent by you, but had to finish off arrear work in the Department, which left me no time lately for new work. I am much interested in this Raoulia question and told Hooker so.2 The cyperaceous plant, to which you allude, I have not received.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
In Orchids I am particularly interested; would you kindly spare me a specimen of your Epiblema grandiflorum for comparison; its reoccurrence in N.Z. is interesting.
Alectryon
Caltha
Epiblema grandiflorum
Helophyllum
Nephelium
Raoulia
Please cite as “FVM-82-02-13c,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/82-02-13c