14/1/84.
My best thanks are due to you, honored Sir, and to your learned son, for sending me the 5th vol. part 1 of your Monographiae.1 It contains a valuable contribution again to phytography, and it is only to be regretted, that a work, which for its completion must take gigantic dimension, can not be more accelerated by some extraneous financial aid. If the various Governments in the world would subscribe for a large number of copies, a circular being sent to them, the fund would be available to expedite the work.
Boea Treubii I received unfortunately without fruit, and thus it became described as a Didymocarpus.2 I have a new cyrtandrous plant from North Queensland; but also without fruit; so I hesitate to describe it.
I have been very ill with a "catarrhe sec",3 so I went to the coast, where I finished the text of the 10th Decade of the Fragmenta.4 If you have this work not complete, or if any other volumes of mine should be wanting in your library, I will be happy to send them.
With my reverent remembrance of you and M. Casimir de Candolle
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Boea Treubii
Didymocarpus
Please cite as “FVM-84-01-14,” 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 10 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/84-01-14