28 Trau sort ions. 



possibly introduced. It is known on the island as " tatary maw," an 

 obvious corruption of the Maori " tataramoa " (Rubus australis), in allusion 

 to its thorny nature. Probably will soon be exterminated. f 

 Lord Howe, Australia, and widely in the tropics. 



111. * Glycine tabacina Benth., M. 29. 



Recorded only by Maiden, and perhaps introduced. 

 Australia, New Caledonia, and South Sea Islands. 



112. * Streblorrhiza speciosa Endl., M. 33, E. 151. 



Now only known from a solitary drawing. The plant once grew on 

 Phillip Island, and is almost certainly extinct. 

 Endemic. 



Geraniaceae. 



Maiden records Pelargonium australe and Geranium dissectum, M. 20 

 bis, but I think they have been introduced. They are found chiefly in 

 gardens and waste places, though I obtained G. dissectum on the top of Mount 

 Pitt ; but there are numerous other naturalized weeds there. Erodium 

 cicutarivm also occurs. 



OXALIDACEAE. 



113. Oxalis corniculata L. var. reptans (Soland.) Laing. 



Captain Cook mentions in his discovery of the island that he found 

 " cabbage-palm, wood-sorrel, sow-thistles, and samphire abounding in some 

 places on the shore." In Endlicber's list there appears under No. 128, 

 Oxalis reptans Soland. ex Forst. Prodr., but the name is a nomen nudum, 

 though Endlicher remarks, " Mera fortassis Oxalidis corniculatae varietas." 

 Bauer apparently did not collect an Oxalis in Norfolk Island. No Oxalis 

 appears in Maiden's list of indigenous species, though 0. corniculata appears 

 in his list of introductions. I, however, found a little Oxalis common on 

 rocky places near the seashore on Phillip Island as well as on Norfolk Island. 

 It is apparently a form of P. corniculata. It can scarcely be other than 

 the 0. reptans of Forst. Prodr. I give a short diagnosis. 



Oxalis corniculata L. var. reptans (Soland.) Laing. Planta pilosa caule 

 decumbenti vel reptanti, crasso fruticosoque, fructibus linearo-oblongis. 

 acuminatis. 



The whole plant is stouter, and rather larger in all its parts than the 

 common New Zealand forms. It is usually densely pilose, except in the 

 lower portions of the stems, but some specimens are met with in which 

 there are no hairs on the upper surfaces of the leaves. The stem is suf- 

 fruticose at the base. The capsules are about 12 mm. long, and 2-3 mm. 

 broad at the base, narrowing at the top to an acuminate point. It is 

 evidently a coastal plant, growing in the sand or in clefts of rocks. 



% New Caledonia, Kermadecs, Lord Howe, and almost cosmopolitan. 



One species at least of the South African Oxalicls occurs as a garden 

 escape. 



t Since writing the above I have noticed that it appears in Cheeseman's " Flora 

 of Rarotonga," with the Native name of tataramoa, thus confirming my conjecture. 



% This is the distribution of the species ; the variety may be endemic, though per- 

 haps near var. crassifolia. 



