Kempsey1
Oct 30th 1890
My Dear Baron
Herewith please receive 2 specimens numbered as per margin.
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No |
84 | A tree about 80 ft smooth ash like bark yellow fruit contg2 3 brown seeds. |
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" |
85 | Ironwood fruit growing out of the leaf also 86 |
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also |
86 | white flower, dendrobium? |
| 87 | long leaf bronze green flowering orchid |
I will endeavor to get you some fruit of the Commerconia also more specimens of Aphanopetalum and some fruit of the Recinocarpus3
Many thanks for the E4 Leptophleba which I will endeavor to propogate here.
I should like to obtain a couple of young trees known in Queensland as the Leichhardt tree I think it is a nice tree for ornamental purposes. I have often enjoyed a camp under its dense foliage on the Banks of the Fitzroy River. Could you kindly put me into the most convenient way of obtaining these trees when the season comes for removing them & oblige
Yours very Sincerely
Wm MacDonald
Baron F. Von Mueller K C M G
etc etc5
Aphanopetalum
Commerconia
Eucalyptus Leptophleba
Recinocarpus
NSW.
containing.
Ricinocarpus?
Eucalyptus.
MS is accompanied by an envelope bearing a 2d NSW postage stamp inscribed: 'Contg botanical Specimens Only | O. H. M. S | Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller K.C.M.G etc etc Melbourne Victoria | Forests Kempsey 30.10.90.' The front bears the postal stamp 'KEMPSEY N.S.W. OC 31 1890'.
MS found with a specimen of Rhysotoechia bifoliolata (MEL 1586084). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 6/11/90'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-90-10-30,” 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