I wish to remark, that Casimiz1 de Candolle, in his new work on the Piperaceae,2 does not mention any other species of the genus Piper from New Guinea, but Piper methysticum; Piper Rumpfii3 is nearly allied to P. methysticum, but is only known at Ternate. We know as well described not more than 5 Piperaceae from New Guinea; but as about 70 species have been found in the Sunda-Island, it is to be expected that numerous species will be collected by and by in New Guinea. In fact I have already several in my collections, but the specimens are very fragmentary, so that nothing or very little can be done with them. Beccari's Piperaceae remain still unpublished; it is possible, however, that he has collected only a few of them.
Piper methysticum
Piper Rumpfii
Piperaceae
Casimir.
Not identified. Neither C. de Candolle (1873) nor C. de Candolle (1881) mentions Piper methysticum or New Guinea. The name is mentioned in C. de Candolle (1869), pp. 335 (under P. latifolium, as P. methysticum Lam.), 350 (under P. majusculum, as P. methysticum Roxb.), and 354 (under P. methysticum Forster), but New Guinea is not given as a locality.
Error for Piper rumphii.
Letter not found. The text given here is from footnote 2, p. 689 to Miklouho-Maclay (1886a), read to the Linnean Society of NSW on 28 October 1885. In the paper, Miklouho-Maclay wrote that he had rediscovered a note from R. H. C. C. Scheffer on the constituents of a bundle of Kéu given to him by Miklouho-Maclay with the request to determine whether all the specimens 'belonged to the same species (Piper methysticum) or not' (p. 688). M's letter is dated to October 1885 based on the date of the meeting and on the footnote introducing the extract from M's letter, which begins 'I wrote to Baron F. von Mueller about the discovery of Dr. Scheffer's note and received a few days ago his answer. The portion of the Baron's letter, referring to the distribution of Piperaceae, runs (translated from the German) as follows: —'.
Please cite as “FVM-85-10-00c,” 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