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Physical location:

ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 86.10.05b

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1886-10-05 [86.10.05b]. 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/1880-9/1886/86-10-05b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

5/10/86
The flowering specimen of the Eucalyptus, sent by you, dear Dr Ramsay, belongs to E. paniculata, but the fruiting specimens represent an other species (of which I should like to see the flowers); so — at least — it seems to me, though the leaves are singularly similar.
The Pittosporum = P. phillyroides
1
P. phylliraeoides?
DC
The Leopard-tree =
Flindersia maculosa

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F.vM.
2
In B59.04.01, p. 44, M had described the species as F. maculata, not F. maculosa, although Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, p. 389, cited that paper as the source for F. maculosa.
The Wilgar =
Geijera parviflora

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Lindley
Should you write to any friends in the more Central regions of Australia, will you kindly ask them, to dry any of the spring-plants, so profusely out this season, even the minutest; and to send them in successive small parcels by post. It would be "a thousand pity", if this marvellous spring was botanically lost in the almost unsearched furthest inland-tracts of Australia.
You know that fruiting specimens are as acceptable as flowering ones.
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller.