na 



mcd RAFFLB8IA. 'JO. 



know of it. I would draw your attention, however, to tin- very 

 great porosity of the root, to which the buds are attached. 



" ' I have seen nothing resembling this plant in any of mv 

 books; but yesterday, in looking over Dr. Horsfield's immense 

 collections of the plants of Java, 1 find something which perhaps 

 may approach to it; at any rate the buds of the flower he has 

 represented grow from the root precisely in the same manner: 

 his drawing, however, has a branch of leaves, and I do not ob- 

 serve any satisfactory dissections, lie considers it as a new genus ; 

 but the difference of the two plants appears from this, that his 

 full-blown flower is about three inches across, whereas mine i- 

 three feet.' 



Sir Stamford proceeds : 



" Dr. Arnold did not live to return to Bencoolen, nor to fulfil 

 the intentions expressed in the above extract ; but we have finished 

 the drawing of the whole flower, and it is now forwarded under 

 charge of Dr. Ilorsfield, to whom I have also intrusted the pistil 

 and buds. 



" I shall make exertions for procuring another specimen, w ilh 

 which I hope we shall be more fortunate." 



(Signed) "T. S. R.u fi.ks." 



To the "Right Honourable 

 Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. G.C.B., Sec. Sec. 



The drawing of the expanded iiower, and the specimens men- 

 tioned in the preceding extract, were brought to England by 

 Dr. Ilorsfield ; and, having been put into my hands, J proceeded 

 without delay to examine the smaller tiower-bud. In this exa- 

 mination the anthem, although not at first obvious, were soon 

 discovered, but no part was found which could be considered 

 either as a perfect pistillum, or as indicating the probable nature 

 or even the exact place of the ovarium. The remains of the ex- 

 panded 



