Richmond1
April 24 /81
My dear Baron,
Since I wrote to you yesterday2 about the supposed Crotalaria, I find, upon examination, that it does not belong to that genus. It looks like a Tephrosia, & I see that, as in T. flammea, the upper stamen is hairy! In other respects, it is more like T. reticulata, as the flowers are in twos or threes & the pedicels are longer than the calyx, whilst the lobes of the calyx are shorter than the tube. But the leaves have a little point at the end.
If the species is anything new, I will write to my friend for the fruit. I see by the specimens that the leaves vary very much in size, but they all have the same shape & a point at the end.
Yours very sincerely
W Woolls
Crotalaria
Tephrosia flammea
Tephrosia reticulata
Please cite as “FVM-81-04-24a,” 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