The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot Garden, ¶ 25/4/73 ¶ ¶ The rest of the Monocotyledoneae with adnate Calyx-tube, dear Mr Bentham, was despatched under date 24 March by the Steamship ¶ Somersetshire ¶ , and an other por...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 88-9. 73.04.25

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1873-04-25. 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/73-04-25>, accessed September 11, 2025

Melbourne bot Garden,

25/4/73

The rest of the with adnate Calyx-tube, dear Mr Bentham, was despatched under date 24 March by the Steamship Somersetshire , and an other portion on the 30 jan by the Hampshire under care of Capt Ridgers. In that instance no bill of loading was got; so there is some risk! of loss, unless the Kew Agent has watched the arrival of the Ship.

I was inclined to send you the and allied orders, which are ready, by the Atrato; but not knowing, whether you really do require them, I though it better to wait for your next letter. For I might other wise be deprived of the use of the collections for a year or two without need, until the 7th vol

Of Bentham (1863-78).

was in progress.

During the Easter Holidays

Easter fell on 13 April in 1873.

I worked a little on plants, and commenced the 60th number of the fragmenta.

B73.04.02.

I find that is a truly Stylideous plant, simply with its column dissolved and with its corolla deprived of a tube, having however the broad base of the petals (or segments) as in &c. So there can not be the slightest doubt now, after what Dr Hooker already has written on the subject, that is Stylideous.

J. Hooker (1844-7), vol. 1, part ii, pp. 281-2.

I am likely to get ripe fruits from the Alps of Tasmania next month. This month the plant was still in flower.

Another interesting fact is the occurrence of in N.E. Australia. I found also, that is a new genus of Phytolacceae, as indicated by me several years ago. I sent the manuscript of the plant to Kew, as I had no male flowers, thinking that there might have been such an other specimens of Drummonds there. I have never receive others since, but reexamining the specimens returned by you, I find all my former observations confirmed. I enclose the copy of my manuscript made by Mr Th Müller at the time,

MS not found.

who returned several years ago to Europe. Probably I should never have looked on the plant again, had I not received a genuine new Threlkeldia with flowers three times as long as in T. diffusa from Queensland and this brought me back to my

See M to G. Bentham, 27 February 1869.

of former years.

Having meanwhile applied the same name to a fossil genus,

M erected Trematocaryon (T. mclellani) in B71.05.02, p. 48.

I have called the new Phytolaccaceous plant .

B73.04.02, p. 36; see comments under in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, p. 198.

The curious will also interest you. Like it has the leaves opposed. I have sent the plant to Kew. The new has 5 additional vertical wings! The fruit of proves that plant to be very distinct as a genus. I have named it Guilfoylia in honor of the sender of the fruit.

M erected Guilfoylia (G. monostylis) in B73.04.02, p. 34, eponymizing W. Guilfoyle. Bentham's description as has no description of the fruit (Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, p. 375).

You may find other notes of interest in the new fragmenta, the work after a whole years cessation being at last resumed, amidst continued combat for existence of myself!

With profound regards

Always your

Ferd. von Mueller

I find quite distinct from M vaginalis

I look forward with intense interest to the new volume of the genera also to the vol VI of the Flora.

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 2, part 1; Bentham (1863-78), vol. 6.