16/1/92
Should you, dear Mr Holtze, come across Sida Holtzei1 in a flowering state, will you then from a number of fresh blossoms ascertain:
1, if the styles are always 5
2, if the stigmas are always capitellate or sometimes decurrent.
3, if the flowers are always strictly bisexual.
Your worthy father2 writes, that he never cultivated Aeschynomene aspera. So you added that species to the list of Austral plants. I hope to see him and your kind mother next week in Adelaide3
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller
Attending at the Tasmanian Meeting of the Austral Assoc4 has thrown my botanic work out of progress lately
Aeschynomene aspera
Sida Holtzei
See N. Holtze to M, 7 March 1892 and M. to N. Holtze, 12 January 1892.
Maurice Holtze.
On a visit to meet with Sir Thomas Elder; see M to T. Wilson, 18 January 1892 (in this edition as 92-01-18a). M was met at the railway station in Adelaide on 19 January by SA's Attorney General (R. Homburg), Maurice Holtze and Otto Tepper. While in Adelaide, he also had discussions with Sir Samuel Davenport (South Australian chronicle, 23 January 1892, p. 12). He returned to Melbourne by the 'afternoon express' on 20 January (Express and telegraph (Adelaide), 21 January 1892, p. 3).
M had only recently returned to Melbourne after attending the meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science in Hobart; see M to N. Holtze, 12 January 1892.
Please cite as “FVM-92-01-16b,” 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