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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 75.08.23

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Preferred Citation:

George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1875-08-23. 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/75-08-23>, accessed September 11, 2025

25, WILTON PLACE. S.W.
London
Augt 23 1875
My dear Sir
In reply to yours of the 5th May received a few days since I beg to say that in the
Asclepiadeae

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for Genera just printed off we have retained the genus
Fischeria

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D.C. but have removed it from the
Gonolobeae

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where it had been by some confounded with
Gonolobus

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itself although the structure of the gynostegium is really very different.
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No letter from M to Bentham dated 5 May 1875 has been found, but see M to G. Bentham 17 May 1875 (in this edition as 75-05-17b) and Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 2, part 2, p. 750.
We have also just received a specimen of your
Ptychosema anomalum

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on which you ask my opinion.
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Letter not found.
It appears to me to be very closely allied to the original species differing chiefly in its much smaller leaflets and rather more developped growth — but may be a good species.
It will be some time yet before I can set to the Flora Australiensis The printing the Genera has been going on steadily at the rate of a sheet per week for the last three or four months but the part is not yet quite half in type and till that is got through I am prevented from taking to anything else
Yours very sincerely
George Bentham
Baron F von Mueller