The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ Jany 13 1873 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Since I last wrote a box has been dispatched to you containing the whole of the remainder of your Dicotyledons including the supplemental parce...

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Preferred Citation:

George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1873-01-13. 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/73-01-13>, accessed September 11, 2025

25, WILTON PLACE. S.W.

Jany 13 1873

MS annotation by M at head of letter: 'Bernays'.

My dear Sir

Since I last wrote a box has been dispatched to you containing the whole of the remainder of your Dicotyledons including the supplemental parcels lately received. I found but little among the latter to add to what I had done before. Two or perhaps three additional from Dallachy, amongst them one which I have called which I may have confounded with M. inamoena in the former parcels and may be only a variety — additional specimens coming after a genus has been worked up are not very satisfactory as they occasion a great deal of waste of time in going over again the ground that has been already worked up and I have therefore passed over without detailed examination a great many specimens which have appeared to me identical with species already described but require dissection to ascertain that identity. Amongst the was a new and very marked Pimelea from Queensland which you had referred to P. spicata but is very different in the perianth and in some other respects. In a parcel received by the last mail was a Phyllanthus (sect Synostemon) from Lachlan River Lockhart Moreton — a male specimen of which I had already received a female one from Mr Prentice from Brisbane and which is new.

Bentham (1863-78), vol. 6, p. 98, cautiously described the species as P. thesioides, but the name was preoccupied by a species described in 1863.

I commence printing the 6th vol immediately. I am now in the midst of and have got through . Hitherto I find the species well marked but I fear the terrestrial ones will be much more difficult However so much has been done by Brown Lindley yourself young Reichenbach

Robert Brown (1773-1858); John Lindley, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1824-1889).

and others that I hope to get through much more rapidly than with some of the previous Orders

I trust that in pursuance of my Novr letter

See G. Bentham to M, 19 November 1872.

you have kindly dispatched the remaining Monocotyledons with inferior ovaries — including , Scitamineae and e — and I doubt whether I may not have to include also the Apocarpous Orders etc & the Aroid group for the Dicotyledons will barely make up half the volume.

I found with the specimens that came by the last mail a note to you from Queensland about the missing copies of my 5th volume.

Note not found. See M to G. Bentham, July 1871 (in this edition as 71-07-00b).

I wrote to the Government Secretary of Queensland about them last summer and can only repeat what I said then showing that the matter is entirely out of my hands I have been again to the publishers and to the Queensland Agent to verify the facts and repeat the statement of them in the enclosed loose sheet

M sent the enclosed sheet to Bernays; see M to G. Bentham, 23 March 1873.

I begin now to feel very impatient to get to the end of this Flora for I am old and feel that my faculties may soon be impaired. I fear however that after this sixth volume I shall have again to pause as I have engaged to finish the Brasilian (Mimoseae) for Eichler

Bentham (1859-76), part 2, pp. 257-504, issued 1 July 1876 (TL2).

— and I must do my part of Genera Plantarum. The printing of the new part proceeds steadily but slowly the 24th sheet is in type but there are still 6 or 7 to print. I will send you a copy as soon as it is out.

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 2, part 1.

Ever my dear Sir

Yours sincerely

George Bentham

Baron v. Mueller