The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: London ¶ 25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ May 18/63 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Enclosed is the bill of lading of the four cases sent pr Prince of Wales. I hope to hear of their reaching you in safety...

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RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Garden Melbourne. 63.05.18

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Preferred Citation:

George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1863-05-18. 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/63-05-18>, accessed April 20, 2025

MS annotation by M: 'Promised , , Saxifragiae, Melastomeae, Lytheraceae, Combretaceae, Rhizophoreae'. See M to G. Bentham, 23 July 1863.

London

25, WILTON PLACE, S.W.

May 18/63

My dear Sir

Enclosed is the bill of lading of the four cases sent pr Prince of Wales. I hope to hear of their reaching you in safety

By this mail I send you the remainder of the first vol. of my Flora Australiensis

Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1. Bentham was sending sheets as they were printed; see G. Bentham to M, 12 February 1863 (in this edition as 63-02-12a).

I will put up the 30 copies your Government is entitled to in the next box I send you.

I am now at I have done a good genus with 1 species, with 13 species including

Kaleniczenkia ?

and , Oxylobium with 26 species including Callistachys and . with 29 species Chorizema with 13 species including and Mirbelia with 15 species including and Isotropis with 5 species.

Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1 includes more species than are listed here: with 14, Oxylobium, 27; , 32; Chorizema, 15; Mirbelia, 16; Isotropis, 7.

In all I have been obliged to reduce many species I had previously published — and your O. alpestre (which I do not quote as not being published)

M had published in B55.09.02, p. 38, the source cited by Bentham (1863-78), vol. 2, p. 17 when he treated it as a distinct species. See M to G. Bentham, 11 August 1863.

go into O. ellipticum. I include and ovata in one species O. callistachys is a var of I. striata & O. delalatum

O. dilatatum?

go into O. cuneatum is Bth & D. subinerne Meisn. = D. multicaulis

D. multicaule?

Turcz = M. multicaulis D. microphyllum Turcz. = M. microphylla, Meisn. or Bth = besides many other reductions but still the collections especially of Drummond from W Australia supply an immense number of very distinct forms. I am anxiously expecting yours as I have no doubt they with Browns which I have not yet examine will make still further additions.

i.e. he Australian collections of Robert Brown (1773-1858) at the British Museum.

I am now at Gompholobium & two genera most intimately connected but still as far as I have gone must be technically separated, like Oxylobium and by the number of ovules Where there is a tenable distinction either in habit or character we must I think keep up large genera universally adopted — otherwise no-one would follow us, and our changes only overload synonymy. In this view , subulatum (your stenophyllum) and polyzygum must go into . On the other hand I think that some s must be excluded but I have not yet finished them.

You asked me whether I could send you a copy of the of Martius's Flora Brasiliensis which I should have most gladly done if I had one that I could spare — but I had only one copy for myself which I am obliged to keep for reference — and it is a very expensive work to buy. I think the whole Flora Brasiliensis is one that the Melbourne Library ought to procure.

The Australian mail came in yesterday but no letters delivered from you I therefore now close this to save the Southampton mail this being overweight for Marseilles

Yours very sincerely

George Bentham

Dr F. Mueller

I think (including Acacia) will make under 1000 sp. — My 2d vol will hold at least 1200 — perhaps more. I can therefore take in & allied families leaving for the 3d. I shall be glad to have your specimens as soon as convenient in order to print next spring

May 19