The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Queensland ¶ Colonial Botanists Office ¶ Department of Agriculture ¶ Brisbane, ¶ May 20th ¶ 189 ¶ 2 ¶ Dear Baron...

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Physical location:

RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 92.05.20

Plant names

Canarium
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Cupania sericolignis
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Polyosma reducta
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Preferred Citation:

Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-05-20. 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/1890-6/1892/92-05-20-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

MS found with a specimen of Sarcopteryx stipata (MEL 2252843), a specimen collected by William MacDonald from Warrell Creek, Kempsey, NSW and unrelated to the content of Bailey's letter. A copy of this letter is in Letter press copy book 2, p. 48, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane.

Queensland

Colonial Botanists Office

Department of Agriculture

Brisbane, May 20th 1892

Dear Baron

Thanks for your kind letter & specimen of

I have only my first specimen of the when better arrive will send you some. The Italians have so far not called upon me. The Bulletin

Bailey (1892).

has been posted and with this is also posted a specimen of a new Cupania known in the Cairns district as Silkwood. I have therefore named it C. sericolignis

Described in Bailey (1892), p. 11.

— The flowers are all male on these specimens but I am in hopes of soon securing female flowers soon. It seems identical with what I gathered on the Mulgrave

Mulgrave River, Qld.

specimens of which you have these differ slightly but insufficient to keep them apart

Ever yours very truly

F. M. Bailey

Baron Ferd von Mueller

Melbourne