From George Bentham   12 October 1864

25 WILTON PLACE, S.W.

London Oct 12/64

My dear Sir

You will have received by last mail the remaining sheets of my 2d vol¹ which were just ready in time to be sent you direct from the printers. The volume has since been published and the 30 copies for your Government as well as the 15 each for the three other contributing Governments have been taken charge of by Baillière who said he should ship them by a vessel to sail today. I trust you will receive them in due course — the three copies to your friends in Copenhagen and the copy to Dr Beckler have also been forwarded on your behalf as you directed.²

Since my return to town I have gone through your supplemental Thalamiflorae and a box is now being packed and will be sent to the agent to ship in a day or two but I am not sure that the bill of lading will be ready to send you this mail. The box contains the remaining parcels of the orders belonging to the 2d vol as well as the supplemental Thalamiflorae. Your Australian Euonymus³ appears to be the same as the E. Timoriensis⁴ Zipp. and perhaps not distinct from E. glabra⁵ Roxburgh, but requires further examination. Under Corchorus Cunninghamii are confounded two species the Brisbane one which as you first suggested and as I described from Fraser's specimens from Cunningham (and therefore retained for it that name) has a fusiform fruit acute or attenuate at both ends — the northern one (which on reexamination should include your Dawson & Burnett specimens referred in the Flora to the Brisbane one) with the fruit short and very obtuse is C. hygrophilus A. Cunn The two are very much the same in foliage but differ slightly in inflorescence and very much in fruit

I am now finishing up Caesalpinieae for Genera⁶ which will take me two or three weeks and shall then attack Myrtaceae. As I shall have 700 pages for the 3d vol I shall get in about 1500 species which will include Myrtaceae Compositae and the intermediate small families Onagrarieae Lythrarieae etc Cucurbitaceae Passifloreae &c⁷ Umbelliferae Araliaceae Cornaceae Loranthaceae Caprifoliaceae species⁸ Rubiaceae and I should be very much obliged if you would forward all these. I shall return Myrtaceae as soon as they are done.

You sent me last year £10 to pay for the copies of Genera Plantaru[m] etc It has been thus spent

Genera Plantarum Part i: 6 copies	£5.5.0
Flora Australiensis
3 copies vol 1 to Copenhagen at 17/	2.11.0
3 do vol 2 to do	2.11.0
1 copy vol 1 to Dr Beckler 17/ and 2/8 postage	19.8
1 do vol 2	19.8
	12.6.4
Recd9	10
Remaining due	£2.6.4

I have not sent any presentation copies in our joint names and only given a very few — about half a dozen — on my own part to those who have assisted me in the work — for besides the £100 each volume I have to give to Reeve for the Government copies, I have to pay for the copies I take at 17/ each.¹⁰ I have now just settled his account for the 2d volume. It would have been more satisfactory if some of the other Governments had been as liberal as yours for there is more labour than I had reckoned upon in working up above 1100 species (for the last vol. 1500 for the next) — however I fixed my own terms and will go through the work if I am spared in health and strength sufficient for the purpose.

Ever yours sincerely

George Bentham

Dr F. Mueller

Araliaceae

Caesalpinieae

Caprifoliaceae

Compositae

Corchorus Cunninghamii

Corchorus hygrophilus

Cornaceae

Cucurbitaceae

Euonymus glabra

Euonymus Timoriensis

Loranthaceae

Lythrarieae

Myrtaceae

Onagrarieae

Passifloreae

Rubiaceae

Thalamiflorae

Umbelliferae