Queensland.
Department of Public Lands,
District Survey Office, Maryborough
4th January 1883
MEMORANDUM:
To Baron Ferd Von Mueller K.C.M.G.
Government Botanist
Melbourne Victoria
By the "Derwent" I am sending four (4) ripe cones of the Fraser Island "Coolbine" or Zamia.1 I have not yet got any of the male cones.
These are fair specimens but not extra large. I am also sending you the leaves and seed of the Fraser Island Turpentine tree. I want you to tell me the botanical name of the tree. It has been proclaimed a Eucalyptus microcorys, but I am of opinion that there must be some mistake as it looks more like Syncarpia Laurifolia, but I may be wrong.
A. M. McDowall
District Surveyor.
Eucalyptus microcorys
Syncarpia Laurifolia
Zamia
See A. McDowall to M, 6 December 1882; A. McDowall to M, 21 February 1883; and A. McDowall to M, 7 March 1883; and also B83.02.01, in which M discussed McDowall's Zamia under the name Encephalartos Douglasii.
MS found with a specimen at MEL many years ago and extracted from the folder. MS annotations by M: 'Answ 23/1/83 FvM' L(letter not found), and 'Eucalyptographia 1-7 (sent Jan 1883.)'.
Please cite as “FVM-83-01-04,” 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