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Physical location:

Letter press copy book 2, p. 31, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane. 92.05.09

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Preferred Citation:

Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-05-09. 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/1890-6/1892/92-05-09-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Colonial Botanist's Office
Brisbane
May 9th 1892
Dear Baron
As amongst my last new plants is a Bursera I hasten to forward to you a specimen. This is the first time that one of this genus has been met with in Australia and now the flowers are wanting but we obtain a glimpse of what they are like from fragments of them at the base of fruit — I have determined to name it B. australasica —
The
Eugenia Johnsoni

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of you is the one noticed by me in the Report on Bot. of Bellenden Ker
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Bailey (1889).
page 42 under E. grandis
I send you examples as perfect as possible of
Tetracera Cowleyana

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Bursera australasica

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Eugenia sordida

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E. macooraia
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E. macoorai ?
Homalium circumpinnatum

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Cryptocarya Lowiana

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Not in IPNI.
Thespidium eumundi

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will also send more when I have the time to look them out — I shall in a short time be able to send you lithograms of nearly all the Queensland ferns.
Yours very truly
F. M. Bailey