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RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 63.03.19a

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George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1863-03-19 [63.03.19a ]. 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/63-03-19a>, accessed April 19, 2025

London March 19/63
25 Wilton Place SW
My dear Sir
I send you by this post these sheets of my Flora Australiensis and hope next month to send you as many more.
On account of the separate grants from the different Colonies I have thought it best to distinguish prominently the stations belonging to each Colony in order that each may see at once what belongs to their own Flora — I have taken the boundaries of Queensland as given in our most recent maps to include Cape York and from thence south in a straight line — and I have called North Australia all tropical Australia West of that line including the N. W. coast
I have done all
Sapindaceae

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except
Dodonaea

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, and the small families previous to it except
Ampelideae

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I am now finishing up the revision of
Rhamneae

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and shall then only have
Ampelideae

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Dodonaea

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and
Anacardiaceae

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to finish the volume
I have found some interesting things — I was glad to see in your
Bosistoa sapindiformis

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the fruit of your
Evodia pentacocca

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which I did not at all like in Evodia or
Melicope

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and was unwilling without seeing the fruit to make a genus of — as it is it makes a very distinct genus differing from those genera in the exalbuminous seeds besides habit & minor characters.
The flowering specimens of your
Arytera ehretiodes

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No publication of this name by M has been found (APNI, accessed 18 November 2020); it was presumably an herbarium name as no synonym is given by Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, p. 490. Bentham cites Hooker's generic name from Bentham & J. Hooker (1862-83), vol. 1, p. 422, i.e. in the part issued on 7 August 1862 (TL2) and received by M in October (see M to A. Tulk, 28 October 1862). The specimen would have been included in case 5, shipped per Kent in July 1862 (Notebook recording despatch of plants for Flora Australiensis, RB MSS M44, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne).
are Hooker's genus
Euroschinus

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— the fruiting specimens of what you thought might be a new thin-leaved
Denhamia

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are those of
Turraea

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pubescens — Among your doubtful plants in the bundle [sent] of
Celastrineae

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was a curious second species of Cadellia which I have called C. monostylis because there is but one instead of 5 carpels. Another very interesting plant of which you had fruiting specimens among your doubtful
Thalamiflorae

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and which we have also in fruit only from Cunningham is a second species of the very curious genus
Siphonodon

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Griff.
As soon as I have done
Dodonaea

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I will send a couple more boxes of your plants back.
Since I returned your last I think there are one or two species of which from the investigation of old synonyms or some other reason I have been obliged to adopt different names from those given in your herbarium but if so you will easily recognise them and see the reason for the change.
Ever yours sincerely
George Bentham
Dr F. Mueller F.R.S.