Emerald1 April 22/80
Dear Baron Mueller
I have much pleasure in sending you a fragment of a new Eucalyptus (E. Curreyana2) which I have found in the sandstone ranges in the neighbourhood of Stanwell.3 It has the general appearance of E. crebra, but the venation of the leaves is different, and the bark is brown, soft, fibrous and lamellar. I have not seen the flowers. The fresh luxurient shoots smell like the 'scented gum' altho it is scarcely perceptible in the dry state.
I am sorry I have not as yet been able to procure the samples of the woods you asked for although I have been promised them long ago.4
Yours faithfully
P. A. O'Shanesy
Eucalyptus Curreyana
Eucalyptus crebra
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Name not published (APNI, IPNI accessed 3 June 2023). MS annotation by M: 'trachyphloia'.
Qld.
M may have requested specimens in response to the offer made in P. O'Shanesy to M, 20 August 1879.
MS found with a specimen of Corymbia trachyphloia (MEL 232277). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 2/5/80'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-80-04-22,” 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