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A sinu Moreton Bay usque ad silvas Illawarrz passim. 
Frutex scandens, elatus. Ramuli teretiusculi. Foliola pallide 
viridia, 2-43" longa, venis reticulatis supra parum visibilibus. 
Petioluli aculeati, foliolorum lateralium eo supremi breviores 18 
imorum longiores; supremus 1i-23" longus. Pedunculi calyce 
utplurimum conspieue longiores. Calyx circiter 3" longus, 5- 
raro 6-partitus. Petala circiter 4" longa, subovata, basi cuneata. 
Anthere pzne à" longs. Flores fowminei et fructus in nostra 
collectione deficiunt. 
R. Australis e Nova Zealandia differt ramulis inermibus, panicula 
magis composita, bracteis calycibus petalisque conspicue minoribus, 
staminibus calycem superantibus et forsan fructus notis. 
Rubus macropodus. 
Seringe, in Cand. Prodr. iii, 557 ; J. Hook. Fl. Tasm. i. 112; F. M. Plants of 
Vict. ii. t. xv. 
Frutieosus, ramulis petiolis pedunculisque subcano-tomentosis 
v. pubescentibus aculeos breves v. brevissimos patentes gerentibus, 
stipulis bracteisque subulato- v. setaceo-linearibus integerrimis v. 
passim bi- v. trisectis persistentibus, foliis pinnatim 3—5-foliolatis 
raro simplicibus, foliolis deltoideo- v. rotundo- v. obovato- v. 
cuneato-rhombeis herbaceis subinermibus brevissime petiolulatis 
v. sessilibus basin versus integerrimis cetero margine inzqualiter 
arguteque dentatis breviter v. brevissime lobatis supra parce 
pilosis glabrescentibus rugosis, subtus albido- v. cinereo-tomentosis, 
pedunculis axillaribus et terminalibus uni- v. paucifloris, pedicellis 
plerisque calyce longioribus, floribus bisexualibus, calycis tomen- 
telli laciniis semilanceolatis integerrimis tenui-acuminatis petala 
suberecta rubra staminaque superantibus mox reflexis, antheris 
minutis, receptaculo parvo, carpidiis pluribus lete rubris glabris 
in fructum ambitu subglobosum confertis denique secedentibus. 
In vallibus silvatieis et secus ripas et aquarum margines a sinu 
St. Vineent's Gulf per Australiam austro-orientalem usque ad 
circulum capricornu extendens, in regiones alpium inferiores ad- 
scendens; in Tasmania frequens. ! 
Frutex sspe altior, laxe et intricate ramosus, scandens v. aliis 
plantis accumbens ; ramis sepe arcuato-recumbentibus, tenui- raro 
denso-tomentosis, teretiusculis.  Aculei ad 13" longi, multi autem 
breviores, recti v. leviter eurvati. Stipule 2-5" longs. Folia 
conspicue petiolata. Foliola erassius tenuiusve herbacea, acutius- 
eula v. obtusiuscula, supra saturate viridia ; lateralia )—13" longa ; 
terminale 1-23" longum, a lateralibus rachi prolongato distans, v. 
rachi abbreviato iis approximatum.  Calyces 3-5 raro 6" longi, 
inermes v. parce aculeolati, brevius longiusve acuminati, acumi- 
nibus passim dilatatis. Petala ungue addito 2-3" longa, ovata v. 
orbieulata, saturate rosea. Stamina petalis subequilonga. An- 
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