10/5/92.
Allow me, dear Dr Dyer, to send you specimens from a cultivated plant of Correa Baeuerleni,
now flowering here. As this is one of the rarest plants of Australia, and as it is
of singular structural interest, you and Prof Oliver may like perhaps to figure it
in the “icones plantarum”, where no Australian plant had a place for a long time.
You will have the printed description of the plant from an extraslip, sent to Kew;
or you will find it in the proceedings of the L.S. of N.S.W. IX, 960.
It occurs solely on the Upper Clyde,
and even there only along the River a limited length of the banks. Perhaps you like,
to remark on the occasion, that several of the most local plants in Australia are
contained in the Order
, altho' of course some few representations of other orders are here restricted also
to extremely limited areas. May I mention, that altho' you kindly send a copy of the
icones to my Departm Library here, as the work proceeds, I regularly subscribe also
to the work through Dulau & Co.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
I still hope, that the two Assistants will be kept in my establishment; they are not
yet transferred, but an other one is. The work is very heavy here, specially as such
great
rural
interests are involved in a clime like this.
As regards Australian and Papuan geographic names, you will find most of them easily
in Blackie's imperial Gazeteer, which splendid work I often consult for extraaustralian
geographic names of obscure places.
