The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 8/4/89. ¶ R. Watson Esqr, ¶ Engineer in Chief of Victorian Railways. ¶ ¶ The Eucalyptus, of which you sent a branchlet with flowerbuds and fruits, also a small sample of wood, dear Mr Watson, ¶ is t...

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No 89/3658, unit 102, VPRS 425, inward registered correspondence, Engineer in Chief, VA 2876, Department of Railways, Public Record Office, Victoria. 89.04.08a

Plant names

Eucalyptus goniocalyx
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Robert Watson, 1889-04-08 [89.04.08a]. 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/1880-9/1889/89-04-08a-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

8/4/89.

R. Watson Esqr,

Engineer in Chief of Victorian Railways.

The Eucalyptus, of which you sent a branchlet with flowerbuds and fruits, also a small sample of wood, dear Mr Watson,

See R. Watson to M, 8 April 1889.

is the .

MS annotation: 'Sample A submitted by Mr Gourlay on behalf of A O'Keefe as Blue Gum from near Koorooman Black spur JRP 9/4/89'. A specimen collected in April 1889 from 'about Koorooman, Toora Track' is in the Melbourne Herbarium (MEL 1609112), under Eucalyptus cypellocarpa ; M's herbarium label, naming the specimen as E. goniocalyx , attributes the collection to Watson.

This tree passes in Victoria generally as "Spotted Gumtree". Its timber is similar to that of the true Blue Gum-tree, and is as durable, particularly when the wood is obtained from slopes of hills and not from wet vallies.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.