From Joseph Maiden   14 July 1884

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

1
editorial addition; the text is from a letter copy book.
2
Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 1, p. 395.
3
Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, p. 455.
4
Not in IPNI, although there are some sheets of Diploglottis cunninghamii at Kew with labels that bear this name, apparently based by W. Hooker on A. Cunningham's MS name Stadtmannia australis, e.g. K000701564.
5
B75.11.02.
6
M had in fact listed Diploglottis Cunninghamii in his Census; see B82.13.16, p. 24. The genus was also listed in B82.13.08, p. 198.
7
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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/84-07-14b