Ferdinand von Mueller

September 25th [189]3

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editorial addition.

Baron von Mueller

Government Botanist for Victoria

Only a description forgotten in my last letters —

Gomphandra polymorpha

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[Wight var].

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The ink has run in the letterpress copy and much of the text is illegible. The description of 'G. polymorpha. Wight , var. 6' is given in Bailey (1893), p. 72. That source has been used to guide the transcription and unless otherwise stated the words in brackets are based upon it. Where an illegible part of the MS does not seem to match the printed text, '[…]' is used. Other differences between this MS and the printed text are noted.

A handsome tree of about [60] ft. in height, the inflorescence and young [shoots puberulent,] otherwise glabrous. Leaves alternate, [3 to 5] in. long, [ovate]-lanceolate with a more or less [elongated blunt] apex and with base cuneate […]

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Printed text has and cuneate base.

petioles of about [4 or 5] lines, upper surface dark green, under surface pale, primary veins distinct

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Printed text has dark green on the upper, pale on the under surface; the primary veins distinct.

only 3 or 4 on each side of the midrib, [reticulate veinlets] obscure, margins entire. Flowers in […]

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Printed text has axillary, but the MS does not resemble that word, and may be two words.

dichotomous cymes Calyx very short — cupshaped, the margins almost or quite entire.

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Printed text has cup-shaped, with almost entire edge.

Corolla-tube about 2 lines long, with minute […]

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interlined word illegible.

[teeth] from which proceeds down to the […]

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two illegible words, one interlined.

with a prominent rib.

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Printed text has teeth, the tips inflexed, from which proceeds down the inside of the corolla-tube

Stamens […]

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two, or three, illegible words, one interlined. Printed text has glabrous, 5,

at length widely spreading but incurved

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Printed text has incurved again

at the anthers. Ovary glabrous, 4 angled. Stigma sessile. Fruit not as yet gathered.

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Printed text has Fruit not as yet been gathered

I cannot separate the above plant from the Indian species of which several (5) varieties are named

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Printed text has I cannot separate this plant from the East Indian species, of which several (5) varieties are named and described.

in Hook Fl of Brit India I. 586.

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J. Hooker (1875-97). The Olacineae, including Gomphandra in the tribe Icacineae, was written by M. T. Masters.

From the fragmentary specimens […]

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I have?

of G. australiana the present plant seems to differ considerably both in foliage and inflorescence.

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Printed text has of G. australiana, F. v. M., the present plant.

Hab. Scrubs of the Barron river. [E. Cowley].

Extrapr. from Bot Bull. No. VIII

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i.e., an 'extraprint' containing the species description as it appeared in Bailey (1893), which has a cover date of December 1893.

now being printed

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