To Edward Ramsay   30 September 1884

30/9/84

 

I am only just back from a departmental tour to the neighboorhood of Lake Hindmarsh,1 dear Mr Ramsay, and am overwhelmed with arrear-work. I will however just write a few lines in acknowledgment of your kind letter and friendly sending.2 The orchid from the New Hebrides is a true Dipodium, as you remarked, not an Eulophia. It accords in its labellum and most other respects with D. punctatum, but it will need a careful comparison of the N. Caledon, Polynes3 and Indian Species to say positively, what this species is. I will examine it carefully, so soon as I get leisure.

The fern is a well known Davallia, but I forgot its specific name, and must hunt it up.

Regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Davallia

Dipodium punctatum

Eulophia

1
Vic. See M to G. Berry, 28 August 1884 (in this edition as 84-08-28a).
2
Letter not found.
3
New Caledonian, Polynesian.

Please cite as “FVM-84-09-30,” 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 9 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/84-09-30