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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Maurice Holtze   14 Oct 1890

14/10/90

Ihre 1132, lieber Herr Holtze, ist Crotalaria quinquefolia L. var trifoliata. Wir hatten diese Pfl. bisher noch nicht von N. W. Austral.

1150 ist Malvastrum tricuspidatum AGr. Halten Sie diese Pfl. als dort einheimsich? Sind die Blumen (die Petala) weiss oder gelb? An Ihren Exemplaren erscheinen sie weiss, aber die mögen nur verbleicht sein.

In nächster Zeit werde ich über andere Ihrer Pflanzen Auskunft geben.

Immer Ihr

Ferd. von Mueller

14/10/90

Your No. 1132, dear Mr Holtze, is Crotalaria quinquefolia L. var trifoliata.1 We did not yet have this plant from N. W. Australia.

No. 1150 is Malvastrum tricuspidatum AGr. Do you think that this plant is native to that area?2 Are the flowers (that is, the petals) white or yellow? On your specimens they appear to be white, but these may well be bleached.

I will soon give you details about further plants of yours.

Always your

Ferd. von Mueller

Crotalaria quinquefolia var trifoliata

Malvastrum tricuspidatum

1

This variety name has not been found (IPNI, accessed 19 July 2022).

2

There is no specimen with this record number in MEL (AVH, accessed 2 June 2022). There is one Malvastrum, un-numbered, attributed to Holtze in 1890, identified as M. coromandelianum, a synonym of the name given here.

Please cite as “FVM-90-10-14,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/90-10-14