Botanic Garden
Brisbane 22 August 1879
Sir F. Mueller CMG.
Dear Sir
By this days post I send you a small box containing an Orchid in flower during my trip to Cairns1 in 1876 I discovered it growing on rocks in shady ravines. It is a very beautiful. I hope you will get it in a good state.
I also in close a specimen both in flower and fruit, which I found during my late trip to the Darlington ranges2 in shearch of timber It is a species of Divesia3 It grows to 15 to 25 feet. Diameter 6 to 12 inchs. It timber is beautiful streaked with pinc lines all through, and takes a fine polish I have put a small peice of the timber in the box with the orchid It has the habit of the weeping myall —. I have named it in the catalogue Divesia Hill
I am still busy with the timber
I am
yours truly
Walter Hill
Divesia
Qld.
South-eastern Qld. Hill was collecting timber specimens for the Queensland exhibit at the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880: see International Exhibition (1880-81: Melbourne) (1880), p. 94.
Daviesia? MEL 80930 is a sheet, including a wood specimen collected by Hill from the Darlington Range on 22/8/79. M's herbarium label identified it as Daviesia corymbosa, but Hill's name D. arborea published in his catalogue, W. Hill (1880), p. 22, is recognised as valid in the Australian Plant Census (https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/APC, accessed 7 November 2019).
Found with Hill's specimen of Daviesia arborea, MEL 80930. MS annotation by M: 'Answ 28/8/79.' Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-79-08-22a,” 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