11/6/65.
Dear Mr Bentham.
The two Rubiaceae sent to you by this mail are evidently as genera new to Australia and possibly new to science. I have not carefully examined them and also not described them, in as much as you have much better material to judge about their position than I have & therefore will be best able to pass an opinion them when you enumerate the Australian. The ripe fruit of both genera is as yet unknown. I have this day sent off to Kew box No. 26 bringing supplemental collections for your use while writing the 3 vol. of the Australian Flora.1 The box is sent by the Sussex and the freight as on all former occasions paid. I should feel obliged by your giving instructions that the freight is paid in London when the collections come back, for the last 5 or 6 boxes have in freight been charged to me both ways!
The draft of £100 for vol. 3 goes by this mail, as I have learnt from the Minister of finance.2
I write more fully to Sir Will. Hooker3
Regardfully
yr
Ferd Mueller
Rubiaceae
Bentham (1863-78).
The beginning of this sentence is marked in the margin with a cross. See G. Bentham to M, 21 September 1865.
M to W. Hooker, 9 June 1965 (in this edition as 65-06-09a).
The letter has the printed and embossed letterhead: Ladies' Leichardt [i.e. Leichhardt] Search Committee'. Bentham has annotated the letter: Dichostachys = Antirhea | Woollsia = Lasianthus very near L [obscurus] | Mephitidia
There is another annotation below Bentham's, apparently added later: […] . arrived. The illegible part appears to be an abbreviation.
Please cite as “FVM-65-06-11,” 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