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
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