From Frederick Bailey   20 May 1892

Queensland

Colonial Botanists Office

Department of Agriculture

Brisbane, May 20th 1892

Dear Baron

Thanks for your kind letter & specimen of Polyosma reducta

I have only my first specimen of the Canarium when better arrive will send you some. The Italians have so far not called upon me. The Bulletin1 has been posted and with this is also posted a specimen of a new Cupania known in the Cairns district as Silkwood. I have therefore named it C. sericolignis — The flowers are all male on these specimens but I am in hopes of soon securing female flowers soon. It seems identical with what I gathered on the Mulgrave2 specimens of which you have these differ slightly but insufficient to keep them apart

Ever yours very truly

F. M. Bailey

 

Baron Ferd von Mueller

Melbourne

 

Canarium

Cupania sericolignis

Polyosma reducta

1
Bailey (1892)?
2
Mulgrave River, Qld.

Please cite as “FVM-92-05-20,” 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 18 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/92-05-20