Emerald1 May 20 /80
Dear Sir F von Mueller
I am in receipt of your note of the 3rd Inst.2 With regard to the Eucalypt which you say is E. trachyphloia my specimens differ from the description given of it in the Flora3 in the accuminate leaves and in the bark. I don't know the tree from the M'Kenzie river as is noted in the Eucalyptus Atlas.4 It is only found on the sandstone ranges near Rockhampton, and as it is very rare as well as inaccessible, the timber has never been used for any purpose. The young seedlings are similar to the adventitious shoots sent you, and my brother5 informs me that these young sprouts and seedlings smell like the scented Gum. There are but few fungi or mosses here, but should I find anything rare I shall send it.
I have at length satisfied regarding the terra incognita, the Drummond Range,6 as I have just returned from there. I have been greatly dissappointed, as there is scarcely anything botanically interesting there. But I have not been altogether unsuccessful, as I found a Eucalypt there, which I enclose,7 that I had not seen before. It is found only on the summit of the range.
There are neither Grass trees palms nor ferns at the part of the Range I searched, and there are scarcely any scrubs.
Yours Faithfully
P. A. O'Shanesy
Eucalyptus trachyphloia
Please cite as “FVM-80-05-20a,” 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