784 THE FLORA OF NORFOLK ISLAND, 



since reduced calmest to the condition of a bare rock. Owing to 

 the weather not being favourable I was unable to visit Phillip 

 Island. Following is Allan Cunningham's account of the 



" The interior presents some deep hollows, in parts densely wooded with 

 small trees, and an underwood, chiefly of the thorny Caper bush (Biisbeckia 

 nohilis), bearing fruit like a green lemon, and very diflScult to travel through " 

 (0??. cit. p. 114). 



"Of the plants, I have to remark that they were, with but few exceptions, 

 the same as those of Norfolk Island. Among them were a species of Hibiscus 

 (H. insularis, Endl.), which has a suffruticose. spinous stem, bore decayed 

 yellowish flowers, appearing not to differ from a plant found at Port 

 Macquarie. I collected flowering specimens of Blackhurnia pinnata, not 

 previously met with in that state, and also of Capparis citrina^ A. Cunn. 

 MSS. {Busbeckia nobilis, Endl.), and the ripe fruit of Mimiisopi^ laurina, 

 A. Cunn. MSS. (Achras costafa, Endl.), which being produced in abundance, 

 afford considerable provender for the pigs. In the shades, I detected a dark, 

 glossy, pinnated-leaved twiner; it appeared to be an undescribed species of 

 Clitoria {CliantMis Baueri, A Cunn. MSS.") lb. p. 115. 



"After pushing our way through some brushes of Caper, [we] entered 

 a thick, close wood, in which Croton sanguifiiimn [Baloyhia lucida, 

 Endl.), Hibiscvs Patersonii (Lagunaria Patersonii, G. Don), Myo- 

 porutn obscurum, Forst. , Blackbiirnia pinnata, Forst., the large Piper 

 (P. psittacorum, Endl.), and Oka a2:)etala, Vahl, were very frequent. 

 This latter I found in flower and young fruit, and was, therefore, 

 fully enabled to establish its identity with Forster's plant, originally found 

 by that botanist in New^ Zealand. The Cocco'oba australis {Polygonum 

 australe, A. Rich.) which I formerly detected on the sandy shores of the Bay 

 of Islands, I also met with, in open situations, but not in fructification. On 

 the southern and western sides of the Island, where more particularly I 

 directed my walk, I observed on grassy spots, Commelina cyaiiea, R. Br., 

 Solanum nigrum (?), Plumbago zeylanica, with the purple flowering Dolichos 

 {Canavalia Baueriana, Endl.), bearing its pods, which are tricarinated on 

 their upper edge. A few blighted trees of Araucaria stood detached from 

 each other in open exposed situations, but not a single tree fern was met with 

 in the deep gullies we descended, where only two species of Fiiices, so 

 frequent on the large Island, w^ere remarked " {IJ>. p. 116). 



Following appear to be the endemic species : — 

 Hibiscus insularis, Endl. 

 Streblorrhiza sjjeciosa, Endl. 



