Herewith, dear Prof Cogniaux, I beg to send you two melastom. plants, found on Mt. Yule in British New Guinea, which is 11,000 feet high, and has lately been ascended for the first time by an expedition, sent out by the Victorian geographic Society, of which I am President. As you are just working on Melastomaceae, I send these two to you. This is all I have of them, only these fragments.
With regardful remembrance
your
Ferd. von Mueller.1
Melastomaceae
Annotated 'Otanthera bracteata Korth — towards Mount Yule. — Bacca atar-fusca,7-8 m […] Summa ½ mm late' and 'Medinilla Muelleri Cogn. sp. n. — Top of Mount Yule, alt. 11,000'.'
Medinilla Muelleri was described in the addenda to Cogniaux (1891), p. 1195, where M is credited with the communication of the specimens mentioned in the annotation, with the source given as 'Exped. Victorian Geogr. Society'.
Please cite as “FVM-91-03-28a,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/91-03-28a