14th July [188]41
Diploglottis Cunninghamii (Hook: fil: Gen: nov:) (Genera Plantarum, Benth: & Hook: p. 3952)
or Cupania Cunninghamii (Hook:) (Flora Australiensis, Benth & F.v.M.)3
or ?Cupania australis4
"The Native Tamarind."
Dear Baron Mueller,
I am in a difficulty in regard to this plant. In your Fragmenta (ix. 90)5 you make allusion to D. Cunninghamii, but in the "Census" you ignore the Genus Diploglottis altogether,6 nor do make mention of C. Cunninghamii. Will you kindly let me know what name you apply to this Diploglottis Cunninghamii of Hook: fil:? I should be very much obliged if you would kindly send me a flowering twig of this tree.7
Yours truly,
J. H. Maiden.
Cupania australis
Cupania Cunninghamii
Diploglottis Cunninghamii
editorial addition; the text is from a letter copy book.
Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 1, p. 395.
Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, p. 455.
Not in APNI (accessed 23 April 2020). Sheet K000701564 of Diploglottis cunninghamii at Kew has labels that bear the specific epithet 'australis', apparently based by W. Hooker on A. Cunningham's MS name Stadtmannia australis.
B75.11.02.
M had in fact listed Diploglottis Cunninghamii in his Census; see B83.03.04, p. 24. The genus was also listed in B82.13.08, p. 198.
See J. Maiden to M, 21 July 1884.
Please cite as “FVM-84-07-14b,” 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