Teschemacher^s New Rafflesia. 63 



Art. VIII.— on A NEW SPECIES OF RAFFLESIA, FROM MA- 

 NILLA. By J. E. Teschemacher. (Read 16th June, 1841.) 



Plate YL 



Having just received from Manilla, preserved in spirit, sev- 

 eral buds of that rare and singular parasite, Rafflesia, which, 

 on examination appeared to difier essentially from the species 

 hitherto described from Java and Sumatra, I beg to offer to 

 the Society the following account, with a drawing. 



The specimens were gathered in Basei, a district of the 

 province of Leite, on the same spot visited by Mr Cuming, 

 for the purpose of finding this plant, during his late excursion 

 to the Philippine Islands. Not having seen any description of 

 this plant by him, in the Scientific Journals, I am uncertain 

 of the result of his visit ; and although I propose the specific 

 name of Manilana for this species, I would readily yield it to 

 any other he may wish it to retain. 



The only accounts of Rafflesia. to which I have access are, 

 that of R. Arnoldi, from Sumatra, in the 13th volume of the 

 Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, and that 

 given by Sir W. J. Hooker, in the Companion to the Botan- 

 ical Magazine, of R. Patma detected by Dr Blume, in Noussa 

 Kambangan, a small island on the coast of Java, and described 

 and figured by him in the Flora Javce. 



The column of one of ray specimens was sent by itself 

 from Manilla, and of two others I have dissected buds ; the 

 larger by a vertical cut, the section shown in the figure, the 

 second, a smaller specimen, by the removal of the whole of 

 the envelopes, exhibiting the naked column with its processes, 

 edge, anthers, &c. The column from Manilla, being dissected 

 when fresh, was considerably dried when placed in spirits. Its 

 form and several parts are therefore not very distinctly retained, 

 but the number of anthers and several other pai'ticulars are 

 clear enough. 



The largest bud of those I dissected is two and one-half 

 inches in diameter, and arises from a cup three-fourths of an 



