To George Bentham   20 May 1872

Melbourne

bot Garden

20/5/72

 

I am always pleased to see your handwriting, dear Mr Bentham, and trust, that you are well. It is wonderful, how you maintain your bodily strength and mental power. May it long be so!

Your notes on Euphorbiaceae are very interesting.1 As far back as 1847 I gave the name Euph. chamaesycoidesto what Sonder in the Linnaea subsequently identified as the right E. chamaesyce.2 The final clearing up of these Euphorbiaceous plants will be important. A few novelties occur in the parcels of Euphorbiaceae, sent by the Northumberland-Steamer in March.

I will send you soon the Orchideae, but think that it will be best to exclude other Monocotyledonous orders from the volume.

To the new volume of the "genera"3 I look forward with intense interest.

Always your regardful

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

The bound copy of vol VII fragm. must have reached Kew and yourself 2 month ago.4

Yours F.v.M.

What I have sent as a Streblus is called by Kurz Gironniera ilicifolia.5

 

Euphorbia chamaesycoides

Euphorbiaceae

Gironniera ilicifolia

Orchideae

Streblus

1
G. Bentham to M, 10 March 1872.
2
Sonder (1856c), p. 562, does not mention M's presumed ms. or herbarium name.
3
Bentham and Hooker (1862-83).
4
See G. Bentham to M, 10 March 1872 and 17 April 1872.
5
Kurz treated Gironniera as a subgenus of Sponia , and described S. ilicifolia in Kurz (1872), p. 448. Bentham (1863-78), vol. 6, p. 181 treated M's Streblus as a Pseudomorus .

Please cite as “FVM-72-05-20a,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/72-05-20a