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. sericolignis2 — 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 Mulgrave3 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
Bailey (1892).
Described in Bailey (1892), p. 11.
Mulgrave River, Qld.
MS found with a specimen of Sarcopteryx stipata (MEL 2252843), a specimen collected by William MacDonald from Warrell Creek, Kempsey, NSW and unrelated to the content of Bailey's letter. A copy of this letter is in Letter press copy book 2, p. 48, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane.
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