430 —— LXI. RUBIACEX. [ Coprosma. 
nate bracts or floral leaves under the head. Calyx minutely toothed. Corolla 
nearly 3 lines long in the males, the lobes 4 to 6, longer than the tube, rather 
smaller in the females.. Style-branches fully 4 in. long, very shortly united at 
the base.—DC. Prod. iv. 578; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 165; C. cuspidifolia, 
DC. Le 
N.S. Wales. Damp situations in the Moe SE Lë = Blue Mountains, and 
near Bathurst, Æ. and R. Cunningham ; Argyle County, M*A 
ctoria. Rich wet valleys of the Buffalo nie F Medias Portland Ranges, 
Robertson ; Port Phillip, R. Brown. 
asmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; abundant in rocky places throughout the 
colony, J. D. Hooker. 
the males. Style-branches 4 or 5 lines long. Fruits small, red.— Canthium qua- 
drifidum, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 69. t. 94 ; Marquis "Billardieri, A. ne 
in Mém. = Hist. Nat. Par. v. 192; DC. Prod. iv. 477. 
N.S ales. M pos ec fe Tomah, alley Five Islands, A. Cun- 
ningham, Kees , F. Mi 
ken ria. Yara a river; pa Ranges, F. Mueller ; Corner Inlet, Wilhelmi 
on by the banks of die? in rich soils, i in shaded ravines and dense 
laedi, * Nat iio Pee ” J. D. Hooker. 
. C. nitida, Hook. f. in Hook. Jie Journ. vi. 465, and Fl. Tasm 
188 i. 39 A. A rigid bushy shrub, of 5 to 6 ft., quite glabrous, the branch 
lets oe spinescent. Leaves elliptical lanceolate or Mee Seel or pie 
all under } in. long, or in luxuriant specimens 3 to 1 in., coriaceous an 
shining, with rec urved ‘mar gins. Flowers of C. Billardieri, "dug à and ral 
minating very short eril shoots. Fruit ovoid oblong or nearly globular, 
larger than in C. Billardier 
ien GH Ies at an ta of 4 to 5000 ft., F. M. re 
T R. Brown ; common on open mountain-tops, J. D. Hook 
. C. pumila, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 465, and Fl. Tasn. i 
166. A prostrate fn ee glabrous shrub, creeping and ge 
sometimes to a great extent. Leaves ovate, obtuse, 2 to 3 lines long, ener 
ceous, shining. Flowers solitary, terminal, sessile between the last dee 
Calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse. Corolla about 21 lines long, the tube am 
upwards, almost campanulate ; lobes much shorter than the tube in the e a 
rather deeper in the females. Stamens much exserted. Styles not so $0 
as in the other species, 
* 
ictoria, Snowy mossy plains, nly M. mountains, and others ECH 
Australian Alps, at an Duer A of 4 to ft., F. Mue Hooker. | 
s iddlesex plains and al the mountain- lops abundant, J. D. Hoo 
The species is also in New nd. 
