Rulingia.'] xxix. stebculiace.e. 239 



with soft pubescent setae, which are long in Cunningham's specimens, shorter 

 m Stuart's. 



N. S. IVales. Weliington Valley and to the westward, A. Ciinninaham ; New Eng- 

 land, (7. BiiiarL ^ : > j > ^ 



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4. R. corylifolia, GraJi, m BoL Mag. t 3182. . An erect shrub, 

 roughly tomentose-villous with stellate hairs. Leaves broadly ovate, 2 to 3 

 m. long, irregularly toothed or broadly lobed, wrinkled, green and roughly 

 pubescent above, more densely tomentose-villous or pubescent underneath. 

 Cymes dense and sessile, forming dense terminal leafy corj^mbs. Eracts and 

 stipules lanceolate. Calyx pi'ominently 5 -angled, villous' deeply lobed, the 

 segments about 4 lines long, erect or connivent. Petals gibbous at the base, 

 the margins of the erect broad part involute, but not united above their 

 attachment as represented by mistake in the plate, the ligula linear, rather 

 short. Stamens shortly united. Ovary prominently 5 -angled, styles quite 

 distinct. Capsule depressed-globuLir, 5-fiirrowed, covered with rigid stellate 

 hfiirs, deeply loculicidal and sometimes septicidal also. — Steetz, in PL Preiss. 

 li. 358 • Commenouia Freissii, Steud. in PL Preiss. i. 237. 



^' Australia. King George's Soimd, R, Brown^ A. Cunningham, Drimmond, 

 Preiss, n, 1652, and others ; LeschenauU, Old field. 



5. R. grandiflora, FmH. in Ilueg. Emm. 12. A shrub or undershrub 

 of 2 or 3 ft., clothed with a whitish, close or velvety tomentura. Leaves 

 broadly or narrow-ovate, obtuse, mostly 1^ to 2 in. long, irregularly toothed 

 or slightly lobed, tomcntose on both sides but whiter imderneath. Cymes 

 dense and nearly sessile, but not so much so as in 7?. corylifolia. Calyx pro- 

 |nuieutly angled, scarcely spreading, tomcntose. Petals concave at the base, 

 hut not gibbous, more gradually narrowed itito the ligula than in most species. 

 Stnmmodia and stamens very short Capsule globose, longer than the calyx, 

 4 to 5 lines diameter, densely hirsute with stellate hairs borne on veiy short 

 seta^, the cells or carpels nsually 2-seeded.— Steetz, in PL Preiss. ii, 355 ; 

 ^. altherffolia , Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1852, ii. 151; Commersonia cinerea, 

 bteud, in PL Preiss. i. 238. 



W". Australia, King George's Sound, 3[enzies, Huegel, Brnmmond, «. 268, etc. 

 ^erongerup ranges and road to Cape Riche, Mcuwell, Preiss, n. 1G64. 



6. R. malvaefolia, Steetz, in PI Preiss. ii. 356. A low diffuse or 

 ascending shrub or undershmb, resembliug R. platycalgx and the larger spe- 

 cimens of R, parviflora, but readilv known by the calyx and petals. Leaves 

 ovate or rarely oblong, obtuse, | to 1|~ in. or even 2 in. long, mostly 3- or 

 S'lobed, the lateral lobes short, all coarsely crenate or obtusely lobed and 

 often undulate or crisped, glabrous or pubescent above, more or less hirsute 

 underneath as well as the branches. Cvraes shortly peduncuhite. Buds 

 fliigular and rather acute. Calyx spreading to at Ieas\ 4 lines diameter, the 

 lobes very acute, hairy outside especially at the base. Petals with a very 

 Short broad base, tapering into a very narrow ligula nearly or quite as long as 

 the calyx. Capsule rather large, beset with long glandular-hairy seta,'.— Com- 

 ^^Honia ctjgnorum, 'Steud. in PL Preiss. i. 237- 



^ ^^ Australia. Swan River, and to the nortliward, Brumwond, Preiss, «. 1642; 



^ K.ing Geoj'ge'a Sound, Menzies, Otdjield (a narrow-loaved variety). 



