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The enclosed fruits of Antidesma, dear Dr Dyer, may prove acceptable to the economic-section of the Kew-Museum, especially so, as very few euphorbiaceous plants can be turned as regards their fruits to any nutriment.2 Perhaps you might like to raise the plant also for the Conservatory, it being of some particular interest The species name will be supplied, so soon as flowering samples can be obtained.
With best regards your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Antidesma
Date stamped Royal Gardens Kew 23. May. 93.; annotated in black ink by W. Watson: 266/1893 (i.e. register number in Kew Inwards Book of specimens received); in red ink by ?W. Hemsley ackd 27.5.93; and in black ink by [?J. Jackson] Thanks herewith 84/1893 [JRJ] 24/5/93 (letters not found).
The specimen is in the Economic Botany Collection at Kew, catalogue number 43832, entry book number 84.1893.
Please cite as “FVM-93-04-18a,” 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