"Raspberry-jam . . . acacia sweet-scented, grown on good ground."
1865. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `History of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia,' vol. ii. p. 68:
"The other trees besides the palm were known to the men by colonial appellations, such as the bloodwood and the raspberry-jam. The origin of the latter name, let me inform my readers, has no connection whatever with any produce from the tree."
1896. `The Australasian,' Feb. 15, p. 313:
"The raspberry-jam-tree is so called on account of the strong aroma of raspberries given out when a portion is broken."
[On the same page is an illustration of these trees growing near Perth, Western Australia.]
<hw>Rasp-pod</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given to a large Australian tree, <i>Flindersia australis</i>, R. Br., <i>N.O. Meliaceae</i>.
<hw>Rat</hw>, <i>n</i>. True Rodents are represented in Australia and Tasmania by six genera; viz., <i>Mus</i>, <i>Conilurus (= Hapalotis</i>), <i>Xeromys, Hydromys, Mastacomys</i>, <i>Uromys</i>, of which the five latter are confined to the Australian Region.
The genus <i>Hydromys</i> contains the <i>Eastern Water Rat</i>, sometimes called the <i>Beaver Rat</i> (<i>Hydromys chrysogaster</i>, Geoffroy), and the <i>Western Water Rat</i> (<i>H. fulvolavatus</i>, Gould).
<i>Conilurus</i> contains the <i>Jerboa Rats</i> (q.v.).