  We present an ARPES study of the surface states of Ru$_2$Sn$_3$, a new type
of a strong 3D topological insulator (TI). In contrast to currently known 3D
TIs, which display two-dimensional Dirac cones with linear isotropic
dispersions crossing through one point in the surface Brillouin Zone (SBZ), the
surface states on Ru$_2$Sn$_3$ are highly anisotropic, displaying an almost
flat dispersion along certain high-symmetry directions. This results in
quasi-one dimensional (1D) Dirac electronic states throughout the SBZ that we
argue are inherited from features in the bulk electronic structure of
Ru$_2$Sn$_3$, where the bulk conduction bands are highly anisotropic. Unlike
previous experimentally characterized TIs, the topological surface states of
Ru$_2$Sn$_3$ are the result of a d-p band inversion rather than an s-p band
inversion. The observed surface states are the topological equivalent to a
single 2D Dirac cone at the surface Brillouin zone
