To Nicholas Holtze   3 October 1891

3/10/91

 

Your Fringlily, 1310, dear Mr Holtze, is Thysanotus chrysanthereus. Is it an annual? Could you ascertain this by pot-culture? Are the anthers always yellow? 1300 Solanum Could I get a specimen with ripe berries also? Is it a dwarf plant?

1278. Solanum ellipticum? RBr The fruit must prove it

1284 Solanum also ripe berries needed and notes on height

I have given a note in the proceed. of the Linnéan Soc. of N.S.W on Hypoestes moschata under your father's and my united authority.1 If you have some more seeds of it, I should be obliged. I will soon give you further information on your plants.

Always regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller

 

The dedication to Earl Kinore2 shall be attended to.

Seeds of the blue-flowering droseraceous plant, Byblis liniflora would be particularly valuable.

 

Byblis liniflora

Hypoestes moschata

Solanum ellipticum

Thysanotus chrysanthereus

 
In B92.05.04, p. 474, M noted under Hypoestes floribunda: 'Messrs. M. and N. Holtze, as also Mr. W. Carr-Boyd, found inland some distance from Port Darwin a Hypoestes, which in the eighth edition of the "Select Plants for Industrial Culture and Naturalisation" [B91.09.01, p. 529] received the name H. moschata, on account of the powerful musk-odour, which pervades the whole plant. Whether it can systematically or only industrially be distinguished from H. floribunda may best be ascertained by observations and comparisons in free nature.'
Earl of Kintore. See M to N. Holtze 9 September 1891. No plant named for Kintore or his family name, Keith-Falconer, has been found in APNI.

Please cite as “FVM-91-10-03,” 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 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/91-10-03