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From Eugene Fitzalan to Ferdinand von Mueller   3 Nov 1872

Willow Vale1 3rd November 1872

Dear Sir

In the last case of specimens which I sent you there were 3 yellow plums which I had preserved in spirits — I now enclose you leaf and flower so that you may be enabled to describe them if new — I have never seen it any where else; it is a small bushy tree growing close to Salt Water, I propose sending you by the next steamer direct to Sydney, a case of Orchids which as they are getting scarce here may be difficult to get by and by time to time and will continue to collect anything I can get from time to time and forward to you. In the case with the orchids I will send a lot of fresh palm seeds — Kentia & Ptychosperma, and any others I may get in time, as they are ripe just now — — — —

Yours truly

E Fitzalan

Kentia

Ptychosperma

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Qld.

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MS note by J. H. Willis: 'Removed from a folder of Ximenia americana 1/12/1966' [i.e. MEL 18585].

Please cite as “FVM-72-11-03,” 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/72-11-03