202 Ewart avd Tovey : 



escape in the Vict. Nat., XXIV., p. 193 (1905), may now be con- 

 sidered to be established as a naturalised alien in this State. 



OxAMS PURPURATA, Jacp. (Oxalidaceae). 



Drouin, Victoria, Nov. 1919, C. French, Junr. 



Recorded previously as a garden escape, and now reported as 

 common at Drouin. This plant, a native of South Africa, is evi- 

 dently in process of naturalisation. 



Panicum parviflorum, R.Br. (Grainineae). 

 , As there are no Victorian specimens of this plant, it must be 

 deleted from the Flora of Victoria. Its original admission was due 

 to an error. (See Vict. Nat. XXIV., p. 87, 1907.) 



Phebalium obcokdatu.m, Cuiin. (Rutaceae). 



Whipstick Scrub, Neilborough Road, North of Eaglehawk, Vic- 

 toria, David J. Paton, 7/9/1919. 



This species has only previously been recorded from New South* 

 Wales. There is a specimen in the National Herbarium labelled in 

 the late Baron von Mueller's handwriting as Eriostemon Mor- 

 toni, from Sandhurst, Victoria, September, 1877, without collec- 

 tor's name. E. Mortoni, F.v.M., is a synonym to Phebalium obcor- 

 datum, Cunn. The Baron apparently neglected to record it for 

 Victoria. 



Phormujm tkn\x, Forster. "New Zealand Flav." (Liliaceae). 

 Cawley's Creek, Timboon, per W. A. N. Robertson, 23/10/1919. 

 This plant, a native of New Zealand, which is often cultivated 

 in gardens, is stated to l>e growing wild at the above locality. 



PiMKLKA FLAVA, R. Bi'. (Thy melaeaceae). 

 Bentham gives the flowers as being male and female. In Moore's 

 Flora of New South Wales, this character is used in diagnosis in 

 the Keys. In a large number of specimens recently examined in 

 class it was noticed uniformly that each head contained a numl)er 

 of male flowers, and a few fruiting flowers, but that all the latter 

 contained two well developed and apparently fertile stamens. The 

 flowers ma}', therefore, be either male or hermaphrodite. 

 Ihere appears, however, always to l>e a largt-r number of male 

 flowers in the head than of the " female," or hermaphrodite, flowers. 



