16/11/82.
The plants, just received from you, dear Mr Bailey, are:
| III. | Melochia pyramidata, L. |
| V. | Capparis spinosa L. var. nummularia D.C. |
| IV. | Capparis, without fl. & fr.1 |
| VI. | Distichostemon phyllopterus, FvM |
| II. | Polycarpaea spirostylis, FvM. New locality? |
| I. | Fimbristylis This requires critical examination. I have some more specimens of allied congeners laid aside, and will soon attend to them all. Where is Northcote? on what River?2 |
Do you know, what Hill's Iris Robinsoniana from Mt Bellenden Ker is, as mentioned some years ago in his Report to Government. I cannot think that his plant could be identical with the plant from Howes Island.3 Did he bring any living plants; if so did they ever flower? It must surely be a conspicuous plant, about which I am still completely in the dark, as he never gave me a specimen of it.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
I took Mr Gregory & his Lady to the Liedertafel Concert last Monday Evening.
Could you ask Hill for a specimen of his Iris, if he kept his dry plants?4
Capparis spinosa var. nummularia
Distichostemon phyllopterus
Fimbristylis
Iris Robinsoniana
Melochia pyramidata
Polycarpaea spirostylis
Please cite as “FVM-82-11-16a,” 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