Mr. Bentham seems to have not known that Bamboos are recorded from at least three or four localities in Australia.1 Carron found one in Kennedy's sad expedition, and narrates it in his diary.2 Another is known 80 miles up the Adelaide River.3 Another, again, in the back country of Nichol Bay, and one from beyond Camden Harbour.4 I have been unsuccessful hitherto to get from the settlers in or near any of these districts flowers of these Bambusaceae.
F. Von Müller
Bambusaceae
See Bentham (1863-78), vol. 7, p. 459, where he wrote 'Of the conspicuous tribe Bambusaceae, so generally spread over the tropical regions of the New as well as the Old World, no representative has as yet been detected in Australia'. See also M to G. Bentham, 12 January 1878.
J. MacGillivray (1852), vol. 2, pp. 124-5.
B67.12.01, p. 86.
No published reference up to 1878 to the genus being near Nichol Bay or Camden Harbour (both WA) has been found.
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Home correspondence. Bamboos in Australia'. Gardeners' chronicle, 4 May 1878, p. 569 (B78.05.01). The letter is dated to March as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to be included in this issue.
Please cite as “FVM-78-03-00b,” 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