Ferdinand von Mueller

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Found with Hill's specimen of Daviesia arborea, MEL 80930. MS annotation by M: 'Answ 28/8/79.' Letter not found.

Botanic Garden

Brisbane 22 August 1879

Sir F. Mueller CMG.

Dear Sir

By this days post I send you a small box containing an Orchid in flower during my trip to Cairns

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Qld.

in 1876 I discovered it growing on rocks in shady ravines. It is a very beautiful. I hope you will get it in a good state.

I also in close a specimen both in flower and fruit, which I found during my late trip to the Darlington ranges

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South-eastern Qld. Hill was collecting timber specimens for the Queensland exhibit at the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880: see International Exhibition (1880-81: Melbourne) (1880), p. 94.

in shearch of timber It is a species of

Divesia

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Daviesia? MEL 80930 is a sheet, including a wood specimen collected by Hill from the Darlington Range on 22/8/79. M's herbarium label identified it as Daviesia corymbosa, but Hill's name D. arborea published in his catalogue, W. Hill (1880), p. 22, is recognised as valid in the Australian Plant Census ( https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/APC , accessed 7 November 2019).

It grows to 15 to 25 feet. Diameter 6 to 12 inchs. It timber is beautiful streaked with pinc lines all through, and takes a fine polish I have put a small peice of the timber in the box with the orchid It has the habit of the weeping myall —. I have named it in the catalogue

Divesia

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Hill

I am still busy with the timber