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Memos2
Hannafordia, placed in Lasiopetaleae, belong most certainly to Buettneriaceae near Commersonia3 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.4
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 River5 out of Dr Martins collection, but there are no fruits sent.6
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,7 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)8 with the spurless variety of St. calcaratum.9
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
Dated on the basis that M had received the shipment returning the specimens of Scaevola and Stylidium mentioned below sent from Kew in December 1867.
MS annotation, probably by an archivist: ‘vol I’. Hannafordia is described in vol. 1 of Flora Australiensis (i.e. Bentham (1863-78)). Other genera mentioned were however described in vol. 4, page proofs of which M had been sent progressively.
Compare the sequence of the genera in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, p. 225 and B89.12.03, pp. 26-9.
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.
Northern WA, not the SA/Vic river.
There is a pencil annotation, probably by an archivist, ‘vol iv’ above ‘Ipomoea’. Ipomea was treated in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 4, p. 415, where Bentham's only citation for Ipomoea davenporti is M'Douall Stuart from 'N. Australia'. M, who described the species (B68.02.03, p. 97) cites the same collector.
See dating note above.
'minutiflorum' is almost certainly an error for perminutum: see B67.12.01, p. 78 and M to Bentham, 3 November 1867.
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The references to the work on Flora Australiensis mean that the addressee was George Bentham.
Please cite as “FVM-68-04-20,” 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