To [George Bentham]1    May 1866

[May or later, 1866]2

 

I have great doubt that the tree so common about Edgecombe Bay3 could be Eucalyptus largiflorens, it belonging to Leiophloiae & not to the Desert but jungle country.4

 
 

Eucalyptus largiflorens

Leiophloiae

1
The correspondent is most likely to have been G. Bentham, as M wrote such short notes to him while they were working on Flora australiensis.
2
editorial addition. Dated on the basis that M to G. Bentham, 26 June 1866, in this edition as 66-06-26a includes similar comments about Eucalyptus specimens returned from Kew per Lincolnshire, arriving in Melbourne on 3 April 1866 (Argus, 1 May 1866, p. 4).
3
Qld., also spelled ‘Edgecumbe’
4
No valediction or signature.

Please cite as “FVM-66-05-00b,” 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 24 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/66-05-00b