To Joseph Hooker   31 October 1884

 

31/10/84.1

 

In preparing the Monography of Myoporinae,2 dear Sir Joseph, and revising the almost completed drawings for the lithographer, I find that I have no specimen of Myoporum brevipes, though the plant became solely known from my collections.3 Possibly (but not probably) specimens of it may have been mislaid, as I was so crammed up in my Museum til recently a few £100 were spent to add an iron annex. Could a leaf flower and fruit of this Myoporum be spared me from Kew? The same wish I would like to express in reference to Eremophila leucophylla.4

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Eremophila leucophylla

Myoporinae

Myoporum brevipes

1
Annotated by J. Hooker:Dec 31 Sent sample of Myoporum & [Eremophila] & [Hymenophyllum] JH. See J Hooker to M, 31 December 1884 (in this edition as 84-12-31b).
2
B86.13.21.
3
See Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, p. 6. The locality record is given as ‘From M’Douall Stuart’s journey into the interior’.
4
The passagecould a leaf . . . Kew? is marked in the left margin of the MS by a vertical line. Although there were very few specimens at Kew, a fragment of M. brevipes and a specimen of the Eremopohila were sent: see J Hooker to M, 31 December 1884 and annotations on M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 28 April 1885.

Please cite as “FVM-84-10-31,” 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 8 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/84-10-31