The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: May 19 /62 ¶ My dear Sir, ¶ ¶ Since last mail your second box (Pittosporeae Frankeniaceae and Droseraceae) has safely come to hand ¶ ¶ I have finished up to Cruciferae which I have now in hand

Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 62.05.19

Plant names

Cruciferae
Search for Cruciferae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Droseraceae
Search for Droseraceae in
Eupomatia Bennettii
Search for Eupomatia Bennettii in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Frankeniaceae
Search for Frankeniaceae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Pachygone ovata
Search for Pachygone ovata in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Pittosporeae
Search for Pittosporeae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Ranunculus Millani
Search for Ranunculus Millani in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Ranunculus choerophyllos
Search for Ranunculus choerophyllos in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Tiliacora
Search for Tiliacora in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Triclisia
Search for Triclisia in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index

Preferred Citation:

George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1862-05-19. 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/62-05-19>, accessed April 29, 2025

May 19 /62

My dear Sir,

Since last mail your second box ( and ) has safely come to hand

Despatched by Great Britain, 27 January 1862 (RB MSS M44, Notebook recording despatch of plants for Bentham for Flora australiensis, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne).

I have finished up to which I have now in hand — although my time has been much turned away to other matters — your collection of Victoria plants is most valuable and I hope you will receive all safe back and your other Australian specimens a most material help or addition to what is to be seen here — I carefully avoid mixing them with others so that you may find yours intact In a few instances I was sorry to find grubs in them on opening the parcels but the damage is not great.

I agree with you in most of your union of species although perhaps there are a few marked forms I may still be induced to keep up not to go too much against the opinions of others

In Mr Robertson's

John G. Robertson.

Victoria plants I find a Ranunculus from the sandy forests on the Glenelg

Kew specimen K000692765: Ranunculus robertsoni from 'East bank of Glenelg River | Nangela Vale’.

which is not in yours. It is allied to R. Millani but has a grumous root almost like R. choerophyllos

i.e. chaerophyllos.

The Menispermaceous plant you thought was the E Indian has the foliage and fruit of that plant but a very different inflorescence and flower It is a curious plant belonging apparently to an African genus not yet published but printed off some months since in our Genera Plantarum which we have called The minor sepals are stoutly valvate more so than ever in but differs widely in the seed from the latter genus.

The fruit specimen without leaves you thought was Eupomatia is evidently the fruit of your E. Bennettii readily known by the raised scars of the decurrent petioles the terminal inflorescence etc besides the floral characters you pointed out.

I have besides other things the Linnean Anniversary coming on this week and my address is not near finished

Bentham (1864).

so I have no time to write more but was anxious that you should learn the safe arrival of your second box.

I am coming next week to stay two months at Kew itself and shall have little to take me from the Flora.

Yours ever sincerely

George Bentham

Dr F. Mueller.