From George Bentham   8 May 1872

25, WILTON PLACE. S.W.

May 8 /72

My dear Sir

Immediately on receiving your last letter in which you enquired what Mr Berkeley is doing about your Fungi¹ I wrote to him and in answer he says "The notes on the Australian Fungi are printed and I only wait for the number of the Linnean Journal to come out to return the specimens to Dr Mueller to whom indeed the greater part had already been sent once and why he sent them back again I could not quite understand. Any that remain may furnish matter for a supplementary paper."²

I am getting on but slowly with the Euphorbiaceae. I have done about 160 species including the whole of the Phyllantheae which have given me a great deal of trouble with their minute flowers — Although some of Muell. Arg.'s genera require a little modification I cannot approve of many of the changes Baillon has made.³ I have adopted Petalostigma Phyllanthus (43 or 44 sp.) Andrachne Breynia Securinega Neoroepera (2 sp.) Actephila Hemicyclia Briedelia and Cleistanthus — I cannot unite the two latter with the American & African Amanoa Baillon has too much neglected the fruits.

I trust now I shall soon receive the box you announce

Yours very sincerely

George Bentham

Baron F. v. Mueller

Actephila

Amanoa

Andrachne

Breynia

Briedelia

Cleistanthus

Euphorbiaceae

Fungi

Hemicyclia

Neoroepera

Petalostigma

Phyllantheae

Phyllanthus

Securinega