Bradley Street Brisbane
September 4th /80
Dear Baron Mueller
I quite agree with you and tender my thanks for the trouble you have taken with our Tarrietias T. argyrodendron, Fragm IX. 42 & T. trifoliolata, IX. 43.2 are quite distinct species both fine timber trees the first might be called the silver-leaved and the other the bronzed leaved Tarrietias But why you do not acknowledge the third and much more distinct species I cannot think.3 I have always called it T. actinophylla being under the impression that you had thus named it but it seems I am wrong in this, for I cannot find your diagnosis of the species And now I fancy you have it mixed up with the 2 first-mentioned I intend to place it in my synopsis as T. actinophylla,4 and so forward you by this mail a leaf and panicle with fruit. A flower specimen I sent you years ago so you have them by you will you kindly set this to rights in the next Fragmenta5 Remember the leaflets are glabrous on both sides and often larger than those sent the panicle is also often larger and the samaras often measure 2 in. long & 1 broad. It is a large upright tree larger than the other 2 & bearing a dense head of dark green foliage. Hab. Taylors Range6 &c. I have no description of Tarrietia javanicum7 can it belong to that species?
Your Obediently
F M Bailey
The name you think would have been better for the Acrostichum has more than once been used in the genus
FMB
Acrostichum
Tarrietia actinophylla
Tarrietia argyrodendron
Tarrietia javanicum
Tarrietia trifoliolata
Please cite as “FVM-80-09-04,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/80-09-04