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Physical location:

RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 92.05.10

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-05-10. 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/1890-6/1892/92-05-10-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Dysoxylon pettigrewianum (MEL 0118770), described in Bailey (1892), p. 9. A copy of this letter, apparently dated 1 May, is in Bailey's letter press copy book 2, p. 32, Qld Herbarium, Brisbane. However, 10 May is the date on the letter itself.
Colonial Botanists Office
Queensland.
Department of Agriculture,
Brisbane, May 10th 1892
Dear Baron
I neglected yesterday to place in the packet to you, a Dysoxylon. I sent fruiting specimens to you with other imperfect specimens from my Bellenden Ker collection so you have specimens already. Today I send you a loose flower or two and also fruit & foliage. The flowers I have received since my return to Brisbane but although believing it new I did not like to publish it until I received A de Candolle's phaneragamarum.
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Dysoxylum (of which Dysoxylon is an orthographic variant) was discussed in C. de Candolle (1878), pp. 480-528.
I have named this very beautiful tree after my friend The Hon William Pettigrew who has always taken a deep interest in the woods of our colony
Yours very truly
F. M. Bailey
Dysoxylon Pettigrewianum

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