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RULINGIA PANNOSA. CLOTH-LEAVED RlJ- 



LINGIA. 



Class and Order. 



Pentandria Pentagynia. 



(Inter Maherniam et Commersoniam). 



Generic Character. 



Petala 5, e cucullata basi ligulata. Stamina sterilia 5, 

 indivisa, {Nectarium Lin.). Ovarium 5-loculare: loculis 

 dispermis. Capsula: septis duplicatis demum 5-partibihs. 

 Brown. 



Specific Character. 



Rulingia pannosa; capsulis echinatis exsertis, foliis dentato 

 -serratis acutis planis supra scabris subtus tomentosis : in- 

 ferioribus ovatis subcordatis passimque lobatis; superiori- 

 bus oblongo-lanceolatis. Br. prodr.fi. nov-holl. 2,inedit. 



Our friend Mr. Brown, to whom we are indebted for the 

 above generic and specific characters, places this genus in 

 the natural system, in his order of Ruttneriacece, which he 

 has defined in the appendix to Flinders' voyage, vol. 2. p. 

 540. It is nearly related to Commersonia 3 from which it 

 differs, in the number of sterile filaments, or division of the 

 nectarium, in the cells of the ovarium being two -seeded, 

 and in the capsule. Named in memory of John Philip 

 Ruling, author of an essay on the Natural Orders, in 

 which he has published the ideas of Professor Buttner 

 upon this subject. A green-house shrub, native of Port 

 Jackson, in New Holland, where Mr. Brown discovered 

 several other species of the same genus. Communicated by 

 Mr. Kent of Clapton, in May last. 



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