From George Bentham   July 1876

25, WILTON PLACE. S.W.

[July 1876]¹

My dear Sir

I have now almost finished the apocarpous and corolline orders and Junceae and am having a second box packed up to return to you — it will probably be sent off next week. I am going from home for a short time and shall probably be altogether 6 weeks or two months absent in the course of the summer[.]² I shall however have some working time and hope to get through the Palms Pandaneae and Restiaceae by September when I shall be ready for Cyperaceae which as well as Gramineae I should be much obliged to you to send off to me at once if they are not already dispatched. At my age I am more than ever anxious to get through this work I suppose the Glumaceae will take me all the winter and I hope I may keep my health so as by spring to add on the Ferns with which I shall close the work.

I send in the box a copy of the new part of our Genera Plantarum³

I find several errors in the previous identifications of Browns plants Blandfordia Cunninghamii is his B. grandiflora. The large Juncus we all took for his J. vaginatus is his J. pallidus of the true J. vaginatus I have seen no specimen except in his herbarium. Aneilema siliculosum is also only in his herbarium except 2 good specimens we have from Cape York McGillivray it is I think quite distinct from A. acuminatum. I have been obliged to reduce very much his Xerotes [& others]

Yours very sincerely

George Bentham

Baron Ferd. v. Mueller

Aneilema acuminatum

Aneilema siliculosum

Blandfordia Cunninghamii

Blandfordia grandiflora

Cyperaceae

Glumaceae

Gramineae

Junceae

Juncus pallidus

Juncus vaginatus

Pandaneae

Restiaceae

Xerotes