From George Bentham   23 August 1875

25, WILTON PLACE. S.W.

London

Augt 23 1875

My dear Sir

In reply to yours of the 5th May received a few days since I beg to say that in the Asclepiadeae for Genera just printed off we have retained the genus Fischeria D.C. but have removed it from the Gonolobeae where it had been by some confounded with Gonolobus itself although the structure of the gynostegium is really very different.1

We have also just received a specimen of your Ptychosema anomalum on which you ask my opinion.2 It appears to me to be very closely allied to the original species differing chiefly in its much smaller leaflets and rather more developped growth — but may be a good species.

It will be some time yet before I can set to the Flora Australiensis The printing the Genera has been going on steadily at the rate of a sheet per week for the last three or four months but the part is not yet quite half in type and till that is got through I am prevented from taking to anything else

Yours very sincerely

George Bentham

 

Baron F von Mueller

 

Asclepiadeae

Fischeria

Gonolobeae

Gonolobus

Ptychosema anomalum

 
1
No letter from M to Bentham dated 5 May 1875 has been found, but see M to G. Bentham 17 May 1875 (in this edition as 75-05-17b) and Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 2, part 2, p. 750.
2
Letter not found.

Please cite as “FVM-75-08-23,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/75-08-23