The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne ¶ bot Garden ¶ 20/5/72 ¶ ¶ I am always pleased to see your handwriting, dear Mr Bentham, and trust, that you are well. It is wonderful, how you maintain your bodily strength and mental powe...

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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 40. 72.05.20a

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Euphorbia chamaesyce
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Euphorbia chamaesycoides
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Euphorbiaceae
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Gironniera ilicifolia
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Orchideae
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Streblus
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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1872-05-20 [72.05.20a]. 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/1870-9/1872/72-05-20a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Melbourne

bot Garden

20/5/72

I am always pleased to see your handwriting, dear Mr Bentham, and trust, that you are well. It is wonderful, how you maintain your bodily strength and mental power. May it long be so!

Your notes on are very interesting.

G. Bentham to M, 10 March 1872.

As far back as 1847 I gave the name Euph. chamaesycoides to what Sonder in the Linnaea subsequently identified as the right E. chamaesyce.

Sonder (1856c), p. 562, does not mention M's presumed ms. or herbarium name.

The final clearing up of these Euphorbiaceous plants will be important. A few novelties occur in the parcels of , sent by the Northumberland-Steamer in March.

I will send you soon the , but think that it will be best to exclude other Monocotyledonous orders from the volume.

To the new volume of the "genera"

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).

I look forward with intense interest.

Always your regardful

Ferd. von Mueller.

The bound copy of vol VII fragm. must have reached Kew and yourself 2 month ago.

B64.11.02. See G. Bentham to M, 10 March 1872 and G. Bentham to M, 17 April 1872.

Yours F.v.M.

What I have sent as a is called by Kurz .

Kurz treated Gironniera as a subgenus of Sponia, and described S. ilicifolia in Kurz (1872), p. 448. Bentham (1863-78), vol. 6, p. 181 treated M's as a Pseudomorus.