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240 XXII. STERCULIACE.E. [Rulingia, 



7. R. platycalsrx, Benth. Shnibby and apparently diff'use, tlie brandies 

 hirsute-tomentose Mith rigid stellate hairs. Leaves broadly ovate, mostly 

 \mdev 1 in. long and deeply 3-lobed, the lobes crenate or almost ])iunatifid, 

 undulate and often crisped, glabrous or scabrous-pubescent above, tonientose 

 and hirsute underneath. Cyuies pedunculate. Buds obtuse, slightly angular. 

 Calyx spreading t^ 5 or 6 lines diameter, tite lobes broad and very obtuse. 

 Petals gibbous at the base, almost as in K CGryVfoUa, the liguhilmear, rather 

 short. Capsule densely beset with short hirsute set^e, but not seen fully 

 ripe. 



Vt^. Australia, Dnnnmond^ ^fh Coll, n, 269. 



8. R. parviflora, Endl. in Hueg. Emm, 12. A low shrub or uiider- 

 shruh, with prostrate or ascending branches of \ to 1|- ft., the young ones 

 hirsute with stellate hairs. Leaves very shortly petiolate, ovate .or ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, rarely 1 in. long, deeply crenate and mostly lobed, with 

 undidute often crisped margins, glabrous or nearly so above, tomeutose or 

 hirsute underneath. Cymes shoitly pedunculate. Buds small, obtuse, 

 scarcely angular. Calyx spreading to about 3 lines^ hirsute outside especially 

 at the base, the lobes obtuse. Petals broad and very open at the base, with a 

 rather long ligula, yet much shorter than in R. malvfpfoUa. Capsule about 2 

 lines diameter, slightly hirsute, with stellate hairs on very short setse.— 

 Steetz, in PI. Preiss. ii. 356 ; i?. conjUfolia, Steud. in PI. Preiss. i. 237, not 

 Grab.; R. nonrt, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1852, ii. 150. 



W. Australia. King Gcorge*s Sound, MenzieSy Iluegel, Drummovd^ n. 270, Treus^ 

 n. IGoO, aud otlicrs. "Readily distinguished from the hist two, of which it has nearly the 

 f(dinge, by the calyx ond petals; it is much more nearly allied in character to the eastern 

 R. hermannicefolia, from which the chief differences coi^ist in hahit and foliage difficult to 

 describe iu worda. 



9. R. hermannisefolia, Steetz, in PL VMss, ii. 353. A shrub, often 

 of several ft., with slender but rigid divaricate branches, hirsute when young 

 but soon nearly glabrous. Leaves in most specimens uaiTOW-oblong and not 

 above | in. loug, in luore luxuriant ones often ovate-lanceolate, or with snort 

 broad basal lobes, always obtuse, crenate, much wrinl:led with revolutc mar- 

 gins of a firm consistence, at length glabrous above, white-tomentose under- 

 neath. In young plants the leaves are often broader and more lobed. Cymes 

 shortly pedunculate. Buds small, obtuse, scarcely angular. Calyx tomentose, 

 opening to nearly 3 hnes diameter. Petals broad and open at the base, the 

 ligula linear, rather short. Capsule 2 or rarely 3 lines diameter, pubescent 

 and deni>ely beset with very short hirsute set-cC. — Bnettneria herwannupfoli^^ 

 J. Gay, in DC, Prod, i, 48G, and Mem. Mus. Par, x. 204, t. 13 ; Bnlimjia 

 erlstlfolia, A. Cunn. Herb., (usually miswritteu cistifolia) ; Steetz, in Ph 

 Preiss. ii. 354; R. ohhngifolia, Steetz, 1. c. 353; Lampeialam dmnosim, 

 Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1504. 



N, S. "Wales.^ Fort Jacksou, R. Brown, BackJumse, and others; Hunter's Kiver, 

 Falerwrt, A. Cutudnyham, 



10. R. loxophylla, F, MuelL Fragm. i. 68. An erect shrub of H ft-, 

 densely velvety tomentose, almost hirsute. Leaves obliquely ovate or cordate, 

 obtuse, i to 2 in. long, crenate, soft and thick, the tomentum rather harsh on 

 the upper side, veiy dense and whitish nndemeath. Cymes small, sessile or 



