202 Ewart and 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. 



OxALis PUUPURATA, Jacp. (Oxalidaceae). 



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



Kecorded 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. (Gramineae). 

 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 obcordatum, Cunn. (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. 



Phormium tbn\x, Forster. "New Zealand Flax." (Liliaceae). 



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

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

 in gardens, is stated to be growing wild at the above locality. 



PiMELKA FLAVA, R. Br. (Thymelaeaceae). 

 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 numljer 

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

 contained two well developed and apparently fertile stamens. The 

 flowers may, therefore, be either male or hermaphrodite. 

 Ihere appears, however, always to be a larger number of male 

 flowers in the head than o-f th3 " female," or hermaphrodite, flowers. 



