ON THE 'in 



FEMALK FLOWER AND FRTJTT 



OP 



RAFFLESIA ARNOLDI, &c, 



Read Jttne 17th, 1834. 



The principal object of the present communication is to 

 complete, as far as my materials enable me, the history of 

 Rajjlei^ia Arnoldi, the male flower of which is described and 

 figured in the thirteenth volume of tlie Society's Transac- 

 tions. 



The specimens from which this additional information 

 has been obtained, as well as those formerly described, were 

 received from the late Sir Stamford Raffles ; and for the draw- 

 ings sobeautifully representing their structure, I am indebted 

 to the same distinguished botanical painter and naturalist, 

 who obligingly supplied those already published. 



In my former essay some observations were made on the 

 affinities of Rafflesia, a subject on which I could not then 

 speak with much confidence. From such knowledge as I 

 possessed, however, I ventured to state that this genus ap- 

 peared to be most nearly ahied to Asarincn, and especially 

 to Cytinus, on the one hand, and on the other to Aph/teia 

 or Hydnora, an equally remarkable parasite of South xVfrica, 

 but the structure of which was at that time very imper- 

 fectly understood. 



