To Edward Ramsay   5 October 1886

5/10/86

 

The flowering specimen of the Eucalyptus, sent by you, dear Dr Ramsay, belongs to E. paniculata, but the fruiting specimens represent an other species (of which I should like to see the flowers); so — at least — it seems to me, though the leaves are singularly similar.

The Pittosporum = P. phillyroides1 DC

The Leopard-tree = Flindersia maculosa F.vM.2

The Wilgar = Geijera parviflora Lindley

Should you write to any friends in the more Central regions of Australia, will you kindly ask them, to dry any of the spring-plants, so profusely out this season, even the minutest; and to send them in successive small parcels by post. It would be "a thousand pity", if this marvellous spring was botanically lost in the almost unsearched furthest inland-tracts of Australia.

You know that fruiting specimens are as acceptable as flowering ones.

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller.

 

Eucalyptus paniculata

Flindersia maculosa

Geijera parviflora

Pittosporum phillyroides

1
P. phylliraeoides?
2
In B59.04.01, p. 44, M had described the species as F. maculata, not F. maculosa, although Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, p. 359, cited M's earlier paper as the source for F. maculosa.

Please cite as “FVM-86-10-05b,” 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 10 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/86-10-05b