New Australian Plants. 67 



Rubus Moorei. 



Shrubby, dioecious ; branches terete, as well as the petioles 

 copiously beset with reflexed short prickles ; leafs pal- 

 mate ; leaflets five or three, stalked, ovate or lanceolate- 

 ovate, acute, on both pages of equal colour, above 

 glabrous, beneath velvety-tornentose, inucronulate-serru- 

 lated, at the rounded base entire ; stipules linear, 

 deciduous, teethless ; panicles axillary, on very short 

 peduncles, with minute prickles; bracts ovate, acumi- 

 nate ; segments of the tomentose calyx ovate, blunt, 

 equal, shorter than the corolla, but longer than the 

 stamens. 



Clarence River. C. Moore. 



It differs from the New Zealandian Rubus Australis in 

 shorter acute, but not acuminate leaves, in ovate bracts, in a 

 larger calyx, and in stamens shorter than the calyx. 



The fruit is, according to Mr. Moore, blackish-red. 



Rubus Hillii. 



Shrubby, hermaphrodite ; branches terete, grey-tomentose, 

 as well as the petioles beset with reflexed short prickles ; 

 leaves simple, cordate, with three to five short acuminate, 

 somewhat angular lobes, above scantily hairy, beneath 

 grey-velutinous, at the margin short toothed; teeth 

 unequal, acute ; nerves and innovations ferrugineous ; 

 stipules and bracts fringelike-laciniated, together with 

 the calyx silky-tomentose ; panicles at last much spread- 

 ing ; calyx as long as the petals ; its divisions acuminate, 

 the inner ones smaller. 



On the Brisbane River. Hill. 



Allied to R. Lambertianus (Ser. in D. C. prodr. ii., 576). 



Myrtace,33. 



Lysicarpus. 



Tube of the calyx bellshaped, below connate with the base 

 of the ovary ; limb five-lobed ; petals five, inserted to a 

 ring, which surrounds the faux of the calyx; stamens 

 numerous, free ; outer ones sterile, longer than the petals, 

 with rather large inapert anthers ; inner ones thinner, 

 nearly as long as the corolla, with round bi-celled 

 anthers, which open by longitudinal slits; anthers all 

 dorsifixed, with a terminal minute gland ; ovary three- 

 celled, with numerous ovules ; style cylindrical ; stigma 



