The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 23/[8]/[71] ¶ ¶ Since I last wrote to you, dear Mr Bentham, I had occasion to reexamine newly sent fruit of Strangea linearis and to get flowers also. ¶ The latter do not diff...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 80. 71.08.23

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Grevillea
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Molloya
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Strangea cynanchocarpa
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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1871-08-23. 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//letters/1870-9/1871/71-08-23-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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23/[8]/[71]

The date is almost illegible. The dating given here is based on the references to the Fragmenta, B71.07.01, p. 132, and the letters to Guilfoyle cited below.

Since I last wrote to you, dear Mr Bentham, I had occasion to reexamine newly sent fruit of and to get flowers also.

See M to M. Guilfoyle, 17 January 1871, and M to M. Guilfoyle, 15 May 1871.

The latter do not differ generically from , but the fruit is so different from any of that Genus and so peculiar in its membranous seed appendage (carefully described in the Fragmenta V, 38)

B65.06.02, p. 38.

that about the generic peculiarity of the Strangea no doubts now remain.

Bentham reduced Strangea to (Bentham (1863-78)), vol. 5, p. 453).

I add as as a second species and have given diagnoses in the current number of the Fragmenta.

B71.07.01, pp. 132-3.

Your regardful

Ferd. von Mueller