Ferdinand von Mueller

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MS found with a folder of Eucalyptus leptophleba. It may have been placed in that folder because of the reference to the nature of the bark on the upper parts of trunk and branches. None of the 39 records of Eucalyptus species collected by O'Shanesy now at MEL is E. leptophleba (AVH, accessed 12 November 2024).

Emerald

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Qld.

Decr. 23 1879

Dear Baron Von Mueller

I am in receipt of yours of the 30/11 & 7/12

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Letters not found.

and am glad that you have fixed the two Eucalypts you refer to. The bark of your E. hemiphloia is quite similar to that of your E. populnea on the trunk, but it is smooth and grey on the upper part of the trunk and branches.

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M has written 'E. leptophleba' in the margin against this paragraph.

Regarding the other species I presume you refer to my n. 3061,

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O'Shanesy interlined '"Blackbutt"' at this point, above which M has written: 'E. leptophleba'. The specimen of E. cambageana, MEL16111040, is O'Shanesy's no. 3061.

not n. 3016.

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M has interlined: 'also 2010.' O'Shanesy's 1879 specimen number 2010 is Eucalyptus cambageana, MEL 1610557, dated 14 July 1879. There is another O'Shanesy specimen of the same species also with the collection number 2010, collected in 1877, MEL1608594. The two specimens labelled '2010' are apparently from different locations in the same region.

Excepting in the fruit, this species has not the remotest appearance of E. Crebra , but the decortication is almost identical with E. tesselaris, the only difference being that the bark does not form such decidedly seperable pieces as that of E. tesselaris . The general appearance of the tree is that of E. tereticornis. This is, I believe the tallest of our local Eucalypts, it not unfrequently approaching to 120 feet, but it is very "pipy" and is not much used locally though it is apparently very durable. It is only found in the scrubby Country at present uninhabited, and therefore the wood has never been tested. It extends from near Westwood at least 170 miles westwards towards the Drummond Range.

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Qld.

P.S. Is there a President of the Linnean Society in Queensland?

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There was no Linnean Society in Qld.