23/1/891
By this mail, dear Mr Dyer, I beg to send you a branch of a Cactus-like Euphorbia, of which Governor McGregor just forwarded a plant from the Louisiades:2 In all probability this branch will reach you in a growing state, so that the species on culture may become definable. As yet we had no big succulent Euphorbia from New Guinea or Polynesia, altho E. corynoclada is also an almost arborescent cactus-like plant from an Island near Cape York.3
Regardfully
always your
Ferd. von Mueller4
Euphorbia corynoclada
Annotated in black ink by Watson on the left half of f. 269 front:
Seeds
Livistona sp. Louisiades
Fagraea sp. "
Recd 4-3-89
Euphorbia dried up and long dead.
Could he establish plants and send them in a Wards Case?
The reciept of these items is noted in the 'Kew Inwards book 1888-1892', p. 147 in entry 115 for 1889, dated 5 March. All items are recorded as from Louisades Archipelago, with a later note 'Pacific Ocean' partially overwritten im a different hand on the first mention of 'Archipelago'.
Please cite as “FVM-89-01-23,” 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 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/89-01-23