and om the Struck rlydnora africas 



H. (CumNon) dioica, antberis 10-12, stylis iotberai num tibus 



abbreviatU: esterioribus (sepias 10) limplici icriei loteriorib 

 invicem subesquidistantibus, annolo baieoi columnse nnlco, periaathii 

 tabo intus ramentaoeo (diametro Boris laniipedall). 



Rafflesia Manillana, Tetchem. in H \ /. Hist. vol. iv. p. 6 



mas. 



Xat. fa 8amar ( Inaula Phitippinanim ; ubiprimumli 



. Planta dioira Ji. Arnold* mull 

 rum Ulte expantkmem < inulia tit 0VU1 liusin ■ i 



forma to rogoto ted \ ix reticulata 

 ramentaoeo i diflRerl umulo baaeoo column irnoldi dd 



thcris mavis paucioribPl (10 \i\ IBthcfai DUtD< 



tibus, hand oo nferti i ted mbaunpl irculari proptut Umbo quam ccntro di 



cum nonnullis (1-3) ccntralibus imi equidirtanttbua, omnibus 



abbnviatis cnttttie dimidium loDgitudlQ [Uante, apicc pilis b ienb ui arutis 



rigidulis barbato: femina absque antlicrarum rudimentis: ovarii Cavitatibtl 

 festr suj)f rantibus et tarn numerosis in centre icvertut pirijduriam Ut in li. 



Ob8. I. The trivial name Manillana, given t<> this species by Mr.Tesche- 



macher, who has described and figured the male flower, can hardly he retained 

 for a plant not known to grow in Luzon, of which Manilla is the capital, but 

 in the island of Samar, where it was first found by Mr. Hugh Cuming 



have Damed it, therefore, in honour of the discoverer.— a change which II 



likely to be objected to. aa Mr. Tescbemacber (foe. en?.) express* i bin readiness 



to adopt any name Mr. Cuming may wish it to retain. 



Oaa. [I. In the general tissue of toil et each cell baa an extremely 



small, round, opake nucleus-. In a trans tion of the column both of 



the male and female flower, the central part appear! to be somewhat mon 

 solid ; and each of the cells, of which it seems to be entirely formed, contains a 

 large nucleus easily separable, of a somewhat oval shape, and apparently 

 sisting of a membrane including minute granular matter, which renders it 

 opake. In the surrounding somewhat looser substance of the column, then 

 seems to be an oval cell within each outer or mother cell, occupying the 

 greater part of its cavity with les- granular matter, and bating frequently a 

 minute round nucleus. The parietes of the placenta- have in each simple cell 



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