Refuyium Botanicum.| | April, 1868. 
TAB, 3: 
Natural Order STERCULIACE. 
Sub-order ByTTNERIESR. 
Genus Ruuinar, RA. Br. 
R. parvirtora (Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 12.) Foliis parvis ovatis obtusis 
crenato-lobatis vel subhastatis marginibus undulatis, infra hirsutis, 
cymis paucifloris breviter pedunculatis, calycis parvis hirsutis lobis 
ovatis obtusis patentibus, petalis rotundato-ovatis obtusis dorso 
ecqualiter rotundatis. — Steetz in Pl. Preiss. ii. p. 856; Benth. Fl. 
Austr. 1. p. 240. BR. corylifolia, Steud. in Pl. Preiss. 1. p. 237, non 
Graham. R. nana, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1852, i. 150. 
A native of Western Australia: 
A copiously branched low shrub, not more than 12 to 18 inches 
high, the twigs slender, clothed densely with spreading grey 
hairs. Petioles very short. Leaves ovate, bluntish, deeply lobed, 
sometimes hastate, half to three-quarters of an inch long by more 
than half as broad, the lobes subcrenate, the surface crisped, 
especially towards the edge, the upper surface green and slightly 
hispid, the lower densely coated with grey tomentum. lowers 
in crowded few-flowered close short-stalked axillary and terminal 
cymes. Bracts small, lanceolate, scariose. Pedicels short, densely 
hairy, as are the blunt scarcely angular buds. Calyx spreading to 
about a quarter of an inch, the lobes ovate, blunt. Petals broad- 
ovate, blunt, spreading, white. Capsule round, about two lines 
in diameter, densely hispid. 
The genus, which includes fourteen species, is confined to 
Australia, with the exception of one that belongs to Madagascar. 
—J.G. B. 
This pretty little dwarf shrubby plant is a native of Western 
Australia, and was reared from seeds presented to me by 
S. Solly, Esq., F.R.S. The branches spread nearly horizontally 
in all directions, and at the flowering season are densely 
covered with small pinkish-white flowers. It requires a green- 
house temperature. Grows freely in sandy peat, requiring but 
little pot room.— W.. W. S. 
