708 THE FLORA OF NORFOLK ISLAND, 



SAPOTACE^. 



64. SiDEROXYLON cosTATUM, F.V.M., (non Endl., as in Tate's 

 List). {Achras costata, Endl., Prod. Norf. 96). — Found by Allan 

 Cunningham on Phillip Island. It is also found on the mainland. 

 Mr. Robinson calls it " Bastard Ironwood," and also a " Shark- 

 wood." 



JASMINES. 



65. Jasminum simplicifolium, Forst. f., Prodr. 3. (Syn. J. 

 gracile, Andr., Endl., Prod. Norf. 111). 



" Among these is the Slender Jasmine, Jasminum gracile, known in Eng- 

 land as a delicate green -house plant. Here it grows over the bushes, or with 

 twisted stems, as thick as a man's wrist, reaches the branches of lofty trees, 

 at fifty feet from the ground, and climbs in their heads. In these cases it 

 has probably grown up with the trees, the lower branches of which have pro- 

 gressively died away, and left the wreathed stems of the .Jasmine-like ropes 

 hanging from the upper boughs " (Backhouse, 258). 



66. Olea apetala, Vahl, Sym. Bot. iii. 3. (Syn. Olea End- 

 licheri, F.v.M., Journ. Bot. xxiii. 354, 1885, a name which Mueller 

 in the following passage proposed to adopt for the Norfolk Island 

 Olea. 



"As regards the Olea from Norfolk Island, it might be now incidentally 

 remarked that it should be distinguished as Olea Endlicheri, inasmuch as 

 Vahl described in the Symbolae, iii. 3, his Olea apetala from New Zealand." 



Tate has the name Olea Endlicheri, Britten, apparently a slip 

 of the pen, through Mr. Britten being editor of the Journal of 

 Botany. The species name cannot, of course, be changed simply 

 because of a localit}^, otherwise one must change all the New 

 Zealand species subsequently found in Norfolk Island. The 

 Norfolk Island and New Zealand Oleas are quite identical. This 

 was pointed out by Allan Cunningham (Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 116), 

 and I also have proved their identity. 



This is the "Ironwood" of the Island. The colour of the fruits 

 varies a good deal, being golden-yellow, bright red and purple on 

 the same and different trees. 



A manuscript, circa 1843, says: — "Ironwood {Notelea long>folia) is used 

 in all wheelwrights' work, and is very hard and durable; it is also used for 



