From William MacDonald to Ferdinand von Mueller   20 Oct 1892

Kempsey,1 October 20th 1892

My Dear Baron Von Mueller

Herewith will you kindly receive and re examine duplicate specimens of some of those which I forwarded in my last Collection as they do not appear to correspond

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190 —2

Corkwood, fruit a blue drupe which you have called Lauruacea3?
208 — A beautiful tree for ornamental purposes like a Myrtus scented like anniseed or Paregoric which you have called Eugenia ventenatii?
192 — Cupania Stipitata? is this correct?
195 — omitted (a pretty bronze flowering vine)
209 — Like an acacia from Bellingen4 which you have named Elaeocarpus obovatus? perhaps I put in a wrong branchlet?
2105 A handsome tree 30 ft & 12 inches diameter light colored smooth bark white flowers from Mr Rudders land

I will endeavour to collect Daviesia arborea fruits for you without fail

I am sorry to trouble you again with these specimens but our numbers do not quite correspond

Yours very truly

Wm MacDonald

Baron Sir F Von Mueller

KCM.G

Melbourne.

Acacia

Cupania Stipitata

Daviesia arborea

Elaeocarpus obovatus

Eugenia ventenatii

Lauruacea

Myrtus

NSW.

See W. MacDonald to M, 9 October 1892.

Lauracea?

NSW.

This entry has been added in the margin.

Please cite as “FVM-92-10-20,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/92-10-20