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Letter press copy book 3, p. 102, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane. 95.06.10

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Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1895-06-10. 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/95-06-10>, accessed September 11, 2025

June 10th [189]5
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editorial addition.
Dear Baron
The more our haste to write our vast flora the more is seen the absolute necessity for increasing the numbers of species or the publishing of named varieties I you know have adopted the latter mode — At the present I have under notice Acronychia levis
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Acronychia laevis?
Forst of which there are with us three very distinct varieties, these I propose arranging as A. levis Forst normalis,
Fruit hardly showing angles leaves scarcely glossy a large tree with smaller leaves [than] the other forms.
var. purpurea. Fruit of a purplish plum colour, leathery the angles very prominent; very hollow, small tree with dark green foliage
var. leucocarpa a tall tree the leaves bright glossy green and 4 or more inches long, 1 to 1½ wide Fruit in lateral cymes white somewhat fleshy with obtuse angles.
Here I may also mention that the other day I got some fruit of
Pleiococca Wilxociana

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Wilcoxiana?
F.v.M. This fruit was nearly 1 in. in diameter white globular, composed of from 5 to 9 connivent carpels fleshy, sharply acid, attached only by the inner angle, connivent tips free, the base produced below the attachment in the form of a blunt spur, (carpels often confluent) Seeds 1 or 2 blackish, tuberculous, flattish and reniform —
yours very truly
F. Manson Bailey
Baron Ferd von Mueller
Government Botanist
for Victoria