To Joseph Hooker   27 May 1884

27/5/84

 

By a strange oversight, dear Sir Joseph, I missed to recollect, that the 5th vol. of DC.’s monographiae contains a complete elaboration of the known Cyrtandreae.1 The volume came during my illness, and I found out my shortcoming only after I sent off the msc. of a supposed n.g. (Chalmersia) by last mail.2 Now I see, that it is a new species of Dichrotrichum, which as I indicated before should be named in honor of the Rev. James Chalmers, who brought it from the higher regions of Mt Stanley Range, New Guinea.

I did not recognize the genus in the “genera”3 as Mr Bentham attributed unconditionally “folia opposita” to it.

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller.

 

Chalmersia

Cyrtandreae

Dichrotrichum

1
C. B. Clarke (1883).
2
See M to J. Hooker, 19 May 1884. M never erected a genus Chalmersia; he described Dichrotrichum chalmersii in B84.06.02, p. 14. However, Moore (1889), p. 174 quoted Chalmersia papuana from 'Baron von Mueller's type at Kew'.
3
Bentham and Hooker (1862-83), volume 2, part 2, p. 1014. See also M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 30 May 1884 (in this edition as 84-05-30a).

Please cite as “FVM-84-05-27,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/84-05-27