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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 206. 78.01.12

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1878-01-12. 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/1870-9/1878/78-01-12-final.odt>, accessed June 16, 2026

12/1/78.
In your introductory notes, dear Mr Bentham, you mention that no
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had been as yet discovered in Australia.
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Bentham (1863-78), vol. 7, p. 459, in his introduction to the Gramineae. See B58.05.01, p. 138, for mention of bamboo in northern Australia although the wording suggests M had not seen specimens himself. There is an explicit reference in B67.12.01, p. 86. See also M to G. Bentham, 28 February 1878.
In several of my printed general writings on Australia I have stated, that the Bamboos do occur, altho' I have never received any flowering specimens, nor have the
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they?
been seen by any one in flower, so far as I am aware.
I know Bamboos at least from 3 localities
1. On the Adelaide River,
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NT.
high up.
2. in the jungles between Rockinghams Bay & Cape York, where one species was recorded already in the diary of Kennedys expedition by Carron.
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J. MacGillivray (1852), vol. 2, pp. 124-5.
3. in the back country of Camden-Harbour.
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WA.
Regardfully
your
Ferd von Mueller.
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were missing here since 10 years, but I got them back in the last box.
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Post-script paragraph written in pencil. The
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were sent to Bentham in Box 25, 11 January 1865 (Notebook, National Herbarium of Victoria, RB MSS M44); they were published in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 3, pp. 310–13.