To George Bentham   27 November 1866

27/11/66

I have to reply to a kind letter from you, dear Mr Bentham, received by last mail.1 You will receive the fascicles of Monopetaleae in rapid succession, though I shall not be able to send any off until the jurors of the intercolonial Exhibition have done their work, and this will be at the beginning of 1867.

I presume you will be fully engaged on genera plantarum2 in the mean-while. I have so many additions to Coralliflorae of late, that I cannot well send them off as they are and hence a little delay but otherwise the series of orders is almost ready.

Owenia cerasifera turns out, whileI now received flowers, to be Spondias pleiogyna3

I look forward with great interest to the conclusion of vol. III. In 1867 I shall be able to work more regularly on plants. I never had a year yet with so much extratoil & besides other miseries4 as that now drawing to a close.

Let me hope that you preserve your health well,

your regardful

Ferd. Mueller

 

You will receive Drummonds plants with mine.

 
 

Coralliflorae

Monopetaleae

Owenia cerasifera

Spondias pleiogyna

1
Presumably G. Bentham to M, 25 September 1866.
2
Bentham and Hooker (1862—83).
3
M had described Owenia cerasifera in B57.13.04, p. 305, and Spondias pleiogyna in B64.02.01, p. 78.
4
A reference to the collapse of M's engagement to Rebecca Nordt?

Please cite as “FVM-66-11-27a,” 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/66-11-27a