BY J. II. MAIDEN. 711 



76. Ipomcea palmata, Forskael, Fl. Aegypt. Arab. 48. (Syn. 

 /. imidula, R. Br., Endl., Prod. Norf. 105). 



" One of the most beautiful climbers of the Island is Ipomcea pendula, 

 which has handsome, fingered foliage, and flowers like those of the Major 

 Convolvulus, but of a rosy pink, with a darker tube " (Backhouse, 258). 



It is found all over the Island, climbing the highest trees. 



77. Convolvulus affinis, Endl.,* (as Calystegia). (Syn. 

 Calysteyia ajjinis, Endl., Prod. Norf. 103.) — A small white runner. 



78. Convolvulus Soldanella, Linn. [Calystegia Soldanellay 

 A. Rich., Endl., Prod. iSorf. 104). 



79. Convolvulus marginatus, Spreng. — Recorded in B. Fl. iv- 



430. 



SOLANACE^:. 



80. SoLANUM Bauerianum, Endl, Prod. Norf. 109. — Bauer 

 found it on Norfolk Island. 



81. Solanum nigrum, Linn., Eng. Bot. t. 566. — Common every- 

 where (A. Cunn. in Heward). Found by him also on Pliillip 

 Island. 



" Eaten by the prisoners, who also collect and cook the berries of the 

 ' Black Nightshade,' Solanum nigrum. These berries are accounted virulently- 

 poisonous in England, but their character may possibly be changed by the 

 warmer climate of Norfolk Island " (Backhouse, 264). 



They are often eaten in New South Wales, both raw and 

 cooked. At the same time instances of their injurious character 

 in Europe are well authenticated. It may be that plants grown 

 in damp and dismal situations are injurious, while those grown 

 in dry, sunny places are innocuous, but this is but surmise, as I 

 have not been able to trace the relation of soil, &c.j to deleterious 

 properties so far. 



* I do not know whether this is breaking the golden rule of never making 

 a man say what he did not say. Bentham's practice when he transferred a 

 species to another genus, was to give the author of the species in the old 

 genus as the author of the same species in the new. But that practice has 

 not been followed in the case of the next species, perhaps because Linneeus 

 and A. Richard described the species independently, and it was not merely 

 a transfer of names. 



