To George Bentham   12 January 1878

12/1/78.

 

In your introductory notes, dear Mr Bentham, you mention that no Bambusaceae had been as yet discovered in Australia.1 In several of my printed general writings on Australia I have stated, that the Bamboos do occur, altho’ I have never received any flowering specimens, nor have the2 been seen by any one in flower, so far as I am aware.

I know Bamboos at least from 3 localities

1. On the Adelaide River,3 high up.

2. in the jungles between Rockinghams Bay & Cape York, where one species was recorded already in the diary of Kennedys expedition by Carron.4

3. in the back country of Camden-Harbour.5

Regardfully

your

Ferd von Mueller.

 

Passiflorae were missing here since 10 years, but I got them back in the last box.6

 

Bambusaceae

Passiflorae

 
 
1
Bentham (1863-78), vol. 7, p. 459, in his introduction to the Gramineae. See B58.05.01, p. 138, for mention of bamboo in northern Australia although the wording suggests M had not seen specimens himself. There is an explicit reference in B67.12.01, p. 86. See also M to G. Bentham, 28 February 1878.
2
they?
3
NT.
4
MacGillivray (1852), vol. 2, pp. 124-5.
5
WA.
6
Post-script paragraph written in pencil. The Passiflorae were sent to Bentham in Box 25, 11 January 1865 (Notebook, National Herbarium of Victoria, RB MSS M44); they were published in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 3, pp. 310–13.

Please cite as “FVM-78-01-12,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/78-01-12