Melbourne bot. Garden
23/8/70
It is with delight, dear Mr Guilfoyle, that I hear of your fathers account of the Tweed1 and of your own prospect of going there. A diligent search among the plants there will unquestionably reveal much novelty. I merely mention the proteaceous genus Strangea, which grows there, and of which the flowers as yet remained unknown. So the position of the genus is never yet precisely fixed. Mr C. [Mo]ore2 or in his absense perhaps Mr Carron would show the plant to you in the herbarium3 and you might make a tracing and learn the precise spot of its growth. I wished much I could get soon a specimen in flower, even if only a small fragment in a letter. Indeed from such a spot no plant of any kind would come amiss, even if not otherwise useful, it will be geographically interesting.
The Dombeya I will gladly examine for you, whenever you may send it.
Should you any time still go to San Francisco, I will gladly give you letters to friends there.
I never had the pleasure to read your father's account of the Tweed vegetation in the "Herald"4
With very best regard to him & you
Ferd. von Mueller.
Dombeya
Strangea
Please cite as “FVM-70-08-23,” 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