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RBG Kew. Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1858-70. f.1. 68.04.20

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1868-04-20. 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//letters/1860-9/1868/68-04-20-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

1
The references to the work on Flora Australiensis mean that the addressee was George Bentham.
20/4/6[8]
2
Dated on the basis that M had received back from Kew the shipment mentioned in the letter (see note 8 below).
Memos
3
MS annotation, probably by an archivist: ‘vol I’.
Hannafordia

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is described in vol. 1 of Flora Australiensis (i.e. Bentham (1863-78)). Other genera mentioned were however described in vol. 4, page proofs of which M had been sent progressively.
Hannafordia

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, placed in
Lasiopetaleae

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, belong most certainly to
Buettneriaceae

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near
Commersonia

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4
Compare the sequence of the genera in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, p. 225 and B89.12.03, pp. 26-9.
M'leans supposed W.A. (King George Sound) plants must have been gathered near Adelaide. At least
Correa

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,
Geijera

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&c do not occur near K.G.S.
5
Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, cites Maclean's collection from King George Sound to support the presence in Western Australia of
Correa

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speciosa, p. 354, and
Geijera

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parviflora, p. 365.
Goodenia glauca

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certainly stretches to the Great Bight like many Eastern desert-plants. Mr O'Shanesy regards
Thunbergia alata

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and
Quamoclit

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as introduced.
Ipomoea Davenportii

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I got recently from the Glenelg River
6
Northern WA, not the SA/Vic river.
out of Dr Martins collection, but there are no fruits sent.
7
There is a pencil annotation, probably by an archivist, ‘vol iv’ above ‘Ipomoea’. Ipomea was treated in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 4, p. 415, where Bentham's only citation for Ipomoea davenporti is M'Douall Stuart from 'N. Australia'. M, who described the species (B68.02.03, p. 97) cites the same collector.
A Blue-flowered Scaevola has been erroneously mixed up with S. ovalifolia in the lot just returned. Again a yellow-flowered Stylidium is mixed with St. violaceum,
8
M's Scaevola and Stylidium collection were included in the shipment returned from Kew in December 1867 (G. Bentham to M, 19 December 1867 and G. Bentham to M, 18 January 1868).
and specimens of
Thomasia macrocalyx

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from Russell range are united with Th. cognata. Pray compare the accurate description of Stylid. minutiflorum (made from living plants)
9
'minutiflorum' is almost certainly an error for perminutum: see B67.12.01, p. 78 and M to Bentham, 3 November 1867.
with the spurless variety of St. calcaratum.
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