It will interest Mr Bentham and yourself for the genera, that Luisia and Eria are represented in N. E. Australia, and perhaps Epiblema in N. Zealand; for the latter, indicated by Mr Buchanan,1 I cannot vouch, as I have not seen any specimen, but Calochilus does certainly occur there.
Calochilus
Epiblema
Eria
Luisia
See Buchanan (1882), p. 357.
When transcribed, the MS was bound in Hooker's interleaved copy of Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 3, part 2, issued in 1883, between pp. 830 and 831, i.e. within the treatment of the Liliaceae, not the Orchidaceae where it would have been better placed. When called up to enable the transcription to be checked, the volume could not be found.
MS annotation in pencil: 'Shown to Mr Bentham'.
The item is dated to April 1882 as the earliest date it could have been written, as M evidently became aware in that month of Buchanan's announcement of Epiblema being found in New Zealand (see M to J. Buchanan, 17 April 1882 (in this edition as 82-04-17a)). It was probably written before M commented on the text of Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 3, part 2, because in his acknowledgement of a copy (M to J. Hooker, 1 June 1883), he included comments on genera recognised therein, including reiterating that Eria (listed on p. 509) and Luisia (p. 571) had 'genuine Australian species'; there was no comment on Epiblema, which had been listed (p. 607) as a New Zealand genus, found by W. L. Travers who was the source of Buchanan's specimen.
Please cite as “FVM-82-04-00d,” 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