7/6/95.
Encouraged and guided by the excellent figure of Calostema album,1 dear Dr Dyer, an other search after bulbs was caused to be made at Turtle Island,2 and thus I am enabled to send you the sorts, this time obtained, and hope you will receive them all right by this weekly mail.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller.3
Calostema album
Calostemma album was illustrated in April 1895 'at the suggestion of Sir F. v Mueller' in Oliver (1891-5), vol. 24, plate 2371, using a specimen collected by Robert Brown in December 1802 and described by him in R. Brown (1810), p. 298.
Off Cape York, Qld.
See also M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 8 June 1895.
Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 16. JUL. 95; annotated in black ink by W. Watson: 327/1895 (i.e. register number in Kew Inwards Book of specimens received), in red ink by W. Hemsley: Ackd. 17.7.95 (letter not found), and in black ink by W. Watson on the front of the folio opposite the central margin 2 bulbs- Calostemma album 2 tubers — Dioscorea sp. 1 stem — Crinum sp. seeds Telopea oreades.
Please cite as “FVM-95-06-07,” 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