AN ACCOUNT 



OF 



A NEW GENUS OE PLANTS, 



NA3IED 



RAFFLESIA. 



ROBERT BROWN, F.R.S., 



COREESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, AND OF TUE 



ROYAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES OF BERLIN AND MUNICH ; MEMBER OF 



THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY NATURE CURIOSORUM ; OF THE LITERARY 



AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK; OF TUE CAMBRIDGE 



PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ; OF THE WERNERIAN SOCIETY OF 



EDINBURGH, AND OF THE WETTERATIAN NATURAL 



HISTORY SOCIETY. LIBRARIAN TO THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



[Reprinted from the ' Tnuisactions of the Limiean Society. 

 Vol. XIII, pp. 201— 234.] 



LONDON. 



Ai'iuL, 1821. 



