To George Bentham1    20 April 1868

20/4/6[8]2

Memos3

 

Hannafordia, placed in Lasiopetaleae, belong most certainly to Buettneriaceae near Commersonia4 M'leans supposed W.A. (King George Sound) plants must have been gathered near Adelaide. At least Correa, Geijera &c do not occur near K.G.S.5

Goodenia glauca certainly stretches to the Great Bight like many Eastern desert-plants. Mr O'Shanesy regards Thunbergia alata and Quamoclit as introduced.

Ipomoea Davenportii I got recently from the Glenelg River6 out of Dr Martins collection, but there are no fruits sent.7

A Blue-flowered Scaevola has been erroneously mixed up with S. ovalifolia in the lot just returned. Again a yellow-flowered Stylidium is mixed with St. violaceum,8 and specimens of Thomasia macrocalyx from Russell range are united with Th. cognata. Pray compare the accurate description of Stylid. minutiflorum (made from living plants)9 with the spurless variety of St. calcaratum.10

 
 

Buettneriaceae

Commersonia

Correa

Geijera

Goodenia glauca

Hannafordia

Ipomoea Davenportii

Lasiopetaleae

Quamoclit

Scaevola ovalifolia

Stylidium calcaratum

Stylidium minutiflorum

Stylidium violaceum

Thomasia cognata

Thomasia macrocalyx

Thunbergia alata

 
1
The references to the work on Flora Australiensismean that the addressee was George Bentham.
2
Dated on the basis that M had received back from Kew the shipment mentioned in the letter (see note 8 below).
3
MS annotation: ‘vol I’. Hannafordia is described in vol. 1 of Flora Australiensis., Bentham (1863-78). Other genera mentioned were however described in vol. 4, page proofs of which M had been sent progressively.
4
Compare the sequence of the genera in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, p. 225 and B89.13.12, pp. 26-9.
5
Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, cites Maclean's collection from King George Sound to support the presence in Western Australia of Correa speciosa, p. 354, and Geijera parviflora, p. 365.
6
Northern WA, not the SA/Vic river.
7
There is a pencil annotation ‘vol iv’ above ‘Ipomoea’. Ipomea was treated in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 4, p. 415, where Bentham's only citation for Ipomoea davenportiis M'Douall Stuart from 'N. Australia'. M, who described the species (B68.02.03, p. 97) cites the same collector.
8
M's Scaevola and Stylidium collection were included in the shipment returned from Kew in December 1867 (G. Bentham to M, 19 December 1867 and 18 January 1868).
9
'minutiflorum' is almost certainly an error for perminutum: see B67.12.01, p. 78 and M to Bentham, 3 November 1867.
10
The text ends above the bottom of the page without a valediction.

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