108 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
in. some of the Umbellifers. Although it has a fairly wide 
range in the coastal area, it is seldom collected, as it is 
not exceptionally conspicuous, and its habit is not. gre- 
garious. ‘The foliage dies annually and is renewed from 
the perennnial tubers. 
Ipomea palmata, Forsk, ‘‘Hgyptian Bindweed.’’—A 
perennial rock-clinging or climbing plant, with a ten- 
dency to grow near salt water. It may be seen at Manly 
scrambling about the rocks by the side of the road lead- 
ing to Blue Fish Point. It has a long flowering season 
(the writer has known it to be in flower for five months), 
and is a strong grower, a fact which has been amply dem- 
onstrated by Mr. Fred Jackson, who has a plant running 
over an arbour at his place at Carlingford, in company 
with that aggressively robust climber, Dolichos lignosus, 
Linn., and holding its own, though it has had no extrane- 
ous assistance. It is a favourite ornamental plant in Egyp- 
tian gardens, and was originally named Convolvulus 
cairicus, by Linneaus, doubtless an association with the 
ancient city of Cairo. The palmately-lobed leaves (from 
which the plant derives its present specific name), and the 
prominent beard on the angles of the seeds, are characters 
by which this species may be identified. Mr. Jackson inci- 
dentally mentioned that he had seen it growing at Nor- 
folk Island when on a recent visit. On looking the mat- 
ter up, it was found that the species is not recorded from 
this locality in our Australian works of reference. A paper 
on the ‘‘Flora of Norfolk Island,’’ by the Government 
Botanist, J. H. Maiden, F.L.S. (Proc. Linn., Soc., N.S.W., 
28-711), was consulted, and our species disclosed in his 
list of plants found on Norfolk Island. Mr. Maiden says: 
“Tt is found all over the island climbing the highest trees. 
A cosmopolitan species widely dispersed in Tropical Af- 
rica, Asia, and America, with a range in Australia coast- 
ally, from New South Wales to Queensland. It is easily 
grown from seeds, which are produced continuously dur- 
ing the lengthy flowering season.’’ 
Leucopogon fRichei, R.Br.—One of the ‘‘White 
Beards,’’ which has chosen for its habitat a bleak-exposed 
situation on the sand-dunes at Lady Robinson’s Beach, 
generally out of reach of the waves, but spray-swept and 
dwarfed by the salt-laden breezes. In conjunction with 
Correa alba, Andr., and other shrubs characteristic of the 
dune formation, it offers a stern resistance to the onslaughts 
of the encroaching drift sand (which threatens the exis- 
