21/1/65.
Dear Prof. Lindley
I beg to offer to you a proofplate of Gastrolobium grandiflorum, the poison-plant, discovered by J. M. Stuart near Attack Creek in N. W. Australia and which since has proved so destructive to flocks in the interior of Queensland between the Suttor River and the sources of the Flinders River.1 It is, as you will be aware, the only Gastrolobium, hitherto found out of the limits of N. W. Australia.
The fourth volume of the fragmenta, of which this plate is one, will I hope be transmitted for your kind acceptance by next mail, as well, as a volume of illustrations of Victorian plants.2
With profound regards
your
Ferd. Mueller.3
Gastrolobium grandiflorum
See M to the Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette, 25 July 1864 (in this edition as 64-07-25c).
B65.13.04.
Filed with the MS is a proof of an etching of Gastrolobium grandiflorum, annotated by M: 'The recently discovered poison-plant of Queensland and N. W. Australia'. The plate was published in M's Fragmenta, vol. 4, p. 174, where M also noted the occurrence of the species near the source of the Flinders River; he had previously described the species from a specimen collected near Attack Creek, NT, by John McDouall Stuart, in B62.04.01, p. 17.
MS found with a specimen of Gastrolobium grandiflorum.
Please cite as “FVM-65-01-21a,” 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