Ferdinand von Mueller

The correspondent is conjectural. It is most likely to have been Bentham, as M wrote such short notes to him while they were working on Bentham (1863-78) and Bentham and J. Hooker were working on Bentham & Hooker (1862-83). The addressee may, however, have been J. Hooker, who prepared the treatment of Celastrineae. The manuscript is in M's hand.

MS annotation in an unknown hand: 'Vol 1'. The annotation may have been added as the letters were being prepared for binding; many undated folios have similar annotations.

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was treated as a synonym of Denhamia in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, p. 401.

Letter probably after February 1867 on the basis that it must have been written after the final part of vol. 5 of the Fragmenta (B66.13.01) was printed. The publication date of this fascicle is unknown, but it was included in the bound volume issued in February 1867 (B67.02.07). Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 1, p. 998, includes Hedraianthera in the 'Addenda et corrigenda' to that volume, citing B65.10.04, p. 58, where M erected the genus. Their description makes no mention of an aril (see n. 3 below) but this may be because, although Bentham had received a bound copy of vol. 5 of the Fragmenta , neither he nor Hooker had read the supplementary note when their final MS was sent to the printer before Bentham left for Paris on 12 June 1867 (B. Jackson (1906), p. 207); see also G. Bentham to M, 17 June 1867 (in this edition as 67-06-17a). M’s note may have been written in response to Bentham & Hooker, vol. 1, part 3, sent to M in September 1867 when it was published.

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M erected Hedarianthera in B65.10.04, p. 58. The note M cites is in B66.13.01, in the 'Additamenta ad volumen quintum'; in it, M describes the seeds as having an aril.