Hydriastele Wendlandiana
W. & D.
I have not reexamined these specimens (for want of time) and trust no displacement of labels occurred I see some disturbance in my Palm collection.
Hydriastele Wendlandiana
MS found with a specimen of Kentia wendlandia (BRI-AQ24190). The sheet has two packets, labelled respectively by M:
Hydriastele Wendlandiana
Fruit
Liverpool River
1867
and
Hydriastele Wendlandiana
Best flowers I have
Liverpool-River
1867 B. Gulliver.
M had named the species as Kentia wendlandiana in B70.04.01; It was transferred to Hydriastele in H. Wendland & Drude (1875), p. 209, in a paper that M did not receive until November 1876 (M to G. Bentham, 28 November 1876), so the packet labels must have been added after that date. Although M retained the name Kentia wendlandia in his Systematic census of 1882 (B83.03.04) it cannot be assumed that the specimen was sent to Brisbane before that, as the text suggests that it was sent without any more work being done on it. On the contrary, the date suggested here, as the earliest likely date on which M might have sent it, is 1885, since that was when Bailey used the name Hydriastele Wendlandiana in Bailey (1885), p. 112, attributing it as he did so to M but also noting M's name Kentia wendlandiana. For a discussion of the reaction of M and others to the treatment by H. Wendland & Drude, see Dowe (2018).
Please cite as “FVM-85-00-00g,” 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