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.1 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
Dysoxylum (of which Dysoxylon is an orthographic variant) was discussed in C. de Candolle (1878), pp. 480-528.
MS found with a specimen of Dysoxylon pettigrewianum (MEL 0118770), described in Bailey (1892), p. 9. A copy of this letter, apparently 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.
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