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Physical location:

RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 81.04.24a

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Preferred Citation:

William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1881-04-24 [81.04.24a]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id//letters/1880-9/1881/81-04-24a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS found with an unnamed collection of Tephrosia (MEL 630922) from Flinders River, NSW.
Richmond
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NSW.
April 24 /81
My dear Baron,
Since I wrote to you yesterday
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Letter not found.
about the supposed
Crotalaria

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, I find, upon examination, that it does not belong to that genus. It looks like a Tephrosia , & I see that, as in T. flammea , the upper stamen is hairy! In other respects, it is more like T. reticulata , as the flowers are in twos or threes & the pedicels are longer than the calyx, whilst the lobes of the calyx are shorter than the tube. But the leaves have a little point at the end.
If the species is anything new, I will write to my friend for the fruit. I see by the specimens that the leaves vary very much in size, but they all have the same shape & a point at the end.
Yours very sincerely
W Woolls