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XV. An Account of a new G/nus of Flints, named R v mi.f.sia. 

 By Robert Brown, Esq.] F.R.S. Lihr. L.S. 



Bead June SO, L880. 



It is now nearly eighteen months since some account of a Flower 



of extraordinary size was received by m\ lamented friend and 

 patron the late revered President of the Royal Society, from Sir 

 Stamford Rallies, Governor of the East fadia Company's esta- 

 blishments in Sumatra. 



This gigantic Flower, which forms the subject of the present 

 communication, was discovered in ISIS on Sir Stamford's first 

 journey from Bencoolen into the interior. In that journey he was 

 accompanied by a naturalist of great zeal and acquirements, the 

 late Dr. Joseph Arnold, a member of this Society, from whose 

 researches, aided by the friendship and influence of the Governor, 

 in an island so favourably situated and so imperfectly explored 

 as Sumatra, the greatest expectations had been formed. But 

 these expectations were never to be realized : for the same letter 

 which gave the account of the gigantic Flower, brought also the 

 intelligence of Dr. Arnold's death. 



As in this letter many important particulars are stated respect- 

 ing the plant which I am about to describe, and a just tribute is 

 paid to the merits of the naturalist by whom it was discovered, I 

 shall introduce my account by the following extract. 



" Bencoolen, 13th August, 18 IS. 



" You will lament to hear that we have lost Dr. Arnold : he 

 fell a sacrifice to his exertions on my first tour into the interior, 

 and died of fever about a fortnight ago. 



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