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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 190. 77.01.18b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1877-01-18 [77.01.18b]. 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/1870-9/1877/77-01-18b-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

18/1/77.
I have made arrangements, dear Mr Bentham, for the early transmission of the filices, two large boxes. So there will be no delay on my part, as you must be fully occupied til they arrive. Your suggestion of my writing general notes on Australian plants fall in with my view. They do not come within the scope of the “flora Australiensis” and should appear in separate form. I have much material collected for a general memoir, but there is no need for hurry to put them into general order, especially as I expect still some collection from New localities in North Queensland.
Allow me to draw your attention specially to
Haeteria

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.
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Hetaeria?
Endlicher's genus is of a more recent date than that among Orchideae;
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Endlicher created Hetaeria, in Philydraceae, in June 1837 (part 3, p. 133, of Endlicher (1836-40)) and Blume created it in Orchidaceae in 1825 as Etaeria (Blume (1825-6), p. 409, t. 14) and as Hetaeria in Blume & Fischer (1828-51), vol 1, p. viii.
hence I have at page 13 of the “Papuan plants” given the name
Pritzelia

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to it.
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Pritzelia

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pygmaea in B75.11.01, p. 13. This name was not valid: the genus had already been used for an Australian Umbelliferous genus in 1843 by Walpers (1842-8), vol. 2, p. 428.
Regardfully
Ferd. von Mueller.
Unless from New Guinea or other places additional
Philydreae

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are forthcoming, we must regard the three known plants of that little group each generic.
If you adopt the genus
Clinostigma

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, then you will observe, that already in 1874 I referred
Kentia Mooreana

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to it,
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B74.09.02, p. 235.
while Wendl. & Drude’s essay appeared in June 1875.
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H. Wendland & Drude (1875).
The two boxes with
Gramineae

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went by the “Shannon” in November
Mr Baker
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Baker (1876).
has overlooked a Tricoryne published with the Orchids by Reichenbach
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Tricoryne platyptera; Reichenbach (1871), p. 72.
in his program. It seems however like T. Pterocaulon only a form of T. anceps.
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Annotated in an unidentified hand in pencil below last line: Tricoryne platyptera | Laxmannia illecebrosa