To George Bentham   18 January 1877

18/1/77.

 

I have made arrangements, dear Mr Bentham, for the early transmission of the filices, two large boxes. So there will be no delay on my part, as you must be fully occupied til they arrive. Your suggestion of my writing general notes on Australian plants fall in with my view. They do not come within the scope of the “flora Australiensis” and should appear in separate form. I have much material collected for a general memoir, but there is no need for hurry to put them into general order, especially as I expect still some collection from New localities in North Queensland.

Allow me to draw your attention specially to Haeteria.1 Endlicher's genus is of a more recent date than that among Orchideae;2 hence I have at page 13 of the “Papuan plants” given the name Pritzelia to it.3

Regardfully

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Unless from New Guinea or other places additional Philydreae are forthcoming, we must regard the three known plants of that little group each generic.

If you adopt the genus Clinostigma, then you will observe, that already in 1874 I referred Kentia Mooreana to it,4 while Wendl. & Drude’s essay appeared in June 1875.5

The two boxes with Gramineae went by the “Shannon” in November

Mr Baker6 has overlooked a Tricoryne published with the Orchids by Reichenbach7 in his program. It seems however like T. Pterocaulon only a form of T. anceps.8

 

Clinostigma

Gramineae

Haeteria

Kentia Mooreana

Philydreae

Pritzelia

Tricoryne anceps

Tricoryne Pterocaulon

Hetaeria?
Endlicher created Hetaeria, in Philydraceae, in June 1837 (part 3, p. 133, of Endlicher [1836-40]) and Blume created it, in Orchidacea, in 1825 as Etaeria (Blume [1825-6, p. 409, t. 14) and as Hetaeria in Blume & Fischer (1828), p. viii.
Pritzelia pygmaeain B75.11.01, p. 13. This name was not valid: it had already been used for an Australian Umbelliferous genus in 1843 by Walpers (1842-8), vol. 2, p. 428.
B74.09.02, p. 235.
Wendland & Drude (1875).
Baker (1876).
Tricoryne platyptera; Reichenbach (1871a), p. 72.
Annotated in an unidentified hand in pencil below last line: Tricoryne platyptera | Laxmannia illecebrosa

Please cite as “FVM-77-01-18b,” 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 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/77-01-18b