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From Walter Hill to Ferdinand von Mueller   [Apr 1857]

48. This is the plant that you informed me poor Lecherd1 found. If not already named named after Lecherd for it is one of the finest flowering tree I have met with yet. when in flower we can see at a large distance if among other trees with [it] large spick of its gold blossoms2

1

Leichhardt?

2

There is a separate note by Hill with the same specimen: ‘Pine River near Brisbane growing generally on the out skirts of the woods having from 20 to 60 feet in hight. it is indeed a splendid plant.’ MS annotation by M: ‘Barklya syringifolia FM’.

3

MS found with specimen of Barklya syringifolia (MEL 19047) collected by Hill and named by M for Henry Barkly. Item dated to April 1857 on the basis that this is the latest that it could have been sent from Brisbane before M sent the diagnosis and a specimen to Kew; see M to W. Hooker, 11 April 1857, and the specimen at K 760883. Bentham revised the description (J. Hooker to M, 23 August 1858) and it was read at a meeting of the Linnean Society of London on 20 February 1859 (B59.02.02, p. 158).

Please cite as “FVM-57-04-00a,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/57-04-00a