From Frederick Bailey1    10 May 1892

Colonial Botanists Office

Queensland.

Department of Agriculture,

Brisbane, May 10th 1892

Dear Baron

I neglected yesterday to place in the packet to you, a Dysoxylon. I sent fruiting specimens to you with other imperfect specimens from my Bellenden Ker collection so you have specimens already. Today I send you a loose flower or two and also fruit & foliage. The flowers I have received since my return to Brisbane but although believing it new I did not like to publish it until I received A de Candolle's phaneragamarum.2 I have named this very beautiful tree after my friend The Hon William Pettigrew who has always taken a deep interest in the woods of our colony

Yours very truly

F. M. Bailey

 

Dysoxylon Pettigrewianum

Satinwood of the Cairns District

 

Dysoxylon Pettigrewianum

A copy of this letter, dated 1 May, is in Bailey's letter press copy book. 2, p. 32, Qld Herbarium, Brisbane. However, 10 May is the date on the letter itself.
Candolle, A. L. P. P. de (1878-96); C. de Candolle's treatment of the Meliaceae was published in vol. 1, pp. 391-752 (June 1878, TL2), with Dysoxylum (= orthographic variant of Dysoxylon) on pp. 480-528.

Please cite as “FVM-92-05-10,” 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 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/92-05-10