To George Bentham   23 August 1871

Melbourne bot Garden

23/[8]/[71]1

 

Since I last wrote to you, dear Mr Bentham, I had occasion to reexamine newly sent fruit of Strangea linearis and to get flowers also.2 The latter do not differ generically from Grevillea, but the fruit is so different from any of that Genus and so peculiar in its membranous seed appendage (carefully described in the Fragmenta V, 38)3 that about the generic peculiarity of the Strangea no doubts now remain.4

I add Molloya as Strangea cynanchocarpa as a second species and have given diagnoses in the current number of the Fragmenta.5

Your regardful

Ferd. von Mueller

 

Grevillea

Molloya

Strangea cynanchocarpa

Strangea linearis

 
1
The date is almost illegible. The dating given here is based on the references to the Fragmenta,B71.07.01, p. 132, and the letters to Guilfoyle cited below.
2
See M to M. Guilfoyle, 17 January 1871 and 15 May 1871.
3
B65.06.02, p. 38.
4
Bentham reduced Strangea to Grevillea (Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, p. 453.
5
B71.07.01, pp. 132-3.

Please cite as “FVM-71-08-23,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/71-08-23