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From Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller   1 May 1882

May 1 /82.

Dear Baron

At your suggestion1 I wrote to Profr. Pfeffer for Gartners Forstera alias Athecia, it is Royena glabra with the fruit turned upside down. Curiously enough Forsters original ticket with Royena? glabra is with the specimen. This was stuck inside the lid of the little box & unobserved till after we named the plant I have returned it to Mr Pfeffer.

Ever yr

Jos D Hooker

Athecia

Forstera

Royena glabra

1

See W. Pfeffer to M, 26 October 1881, and M to J. Hooker, 12 December 1881.

2

MS embossed with crest of Royal Gardens Kew.

Please cite as “FVM-82-05-01,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/82-05-01