From Frederick Bailey   10 June 1895

June 10th [189]5¹

Dear Baron

The more our haste to write our vast flora the more is seen the absolute necessity for increasing the numbers of species or the publishing of named varieties I you know have adopted the latter mode — At the present I have under notice Acronychia levis² Forst of which there are with us three very distinct varieties, these I propose arranging as A. levis Forst normalis,

Fruit hardly showing angles leaves scarcely glossy a large tree with smaller leaves [than] the other forms.

var. purpurea. Fruit of a purplish plum colour, leathery the angles very prominent; very hollow, small tree with dark green foliage

var. leucocarpa a tall tree the leaves bright glossy green and 4 or more inches long, 1 to 1½ wide Fruit in lateral cymes white somewhat fleshy with obtuse angles.

Here I may also mention that the other day I got some fruit of Pleiococca Wilxociana³ F.v.M. This fruit was nearly 1 in. in diameter white globular, composed of from 5 to 9 connivent carpels fleshy, sharply acid, attached only by the inner angle, connivent tips free, the base produced below the attachment in the form of a blunt spur, (carpels often confluent) Seeds 1 or 2 blackish, tuberculous, flattish and reniform —

yours very truly

F. Manson Bailey

Baron Ferd von Mueller

Government Botanist

for Victoria

Acronychia levis

Acronychia levis varnormalis

Acronychia levis var. leucocarpa

Acronychia levis var. purpurea

Pleiococca Wilxociana