London March 19/63
25 Wilton Place SW.
My dear Sir
I send you by this post these sheets of my Flora Australiensis and hope next month to send you as many more.
On account of the separate grants from the different Colonies I have thought it best to distinguish prominently the stations belonging to each Colony in order that each may see at once what belongs to their own Flora — I have taken the boundaries of Queensland as given in our most recent maps to include Cape York and from thence south in a straight line — and I have called North Australia all tropical Australia West of that line including the N. W. coast
I have done all Sapindaceae except Dodonaea, and the small families previous to it except Ampelideae I am now finishing up the revision of Rhamneae and shall then only have Ampelideae Dodonaea and Anacardiaceae to finish the volume
I have found some interesting things — I was glad to see in your Bosistoa sapindiformis the fruit of your Evodia pentacocca which I did not at all like in Evodia or Melicope and was unwilling without seeing the fruit to make a genus of — as it is it makes a very distinct genus differing from those genera in the exalbuminous seeds besides habit & minor characters.
The flowering specimens of your Arytera ehretiodes1 are Hooker's genus Euroschinus — the fruiting specimens of what you thought might be a new thin-leaved Denhamia are those of Turraea pubescens — Among your doubtful plants in the bundle [sent] of Celastrineae was a curious second species of Cadellia which I have called C. monostylis because there is but one instead of 5 carpels. Another very interesting plant of which you had fruiting specimens among your doubtful Thalamiflorae and which we have also in fruit only from Cunningham is a second species of the very curious genus Siphonodon Griff.
As soon as I have done Dodonaea I will send a couple more boxes of your plants back.
Since I returned your last I think there are one or two species of which from the investigation of old synonyms or some other reason I have been obliged to adopt different names from those given in your herbarium but if so you will easily recognise them and see the reason for the change.
Ever yours sincerely
George Bentham
Dr F. Mueller F.R.S.
Arytera ehretiodes
Ampelideae
Anacardiaceae
Bosistoa sapindiformis
Cadellia monostylis
Celastrineae
Denhamia
Dodonaea
Euroschinus
Evodia pentacocca
Melicope
Rhamneae
Sapindaceae
Siphonodon
Thalamiflorae
Turraea
Please cite as “FVM-63-03-19a,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/63-03-19a