DESCRIPTION OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 
vations” to Mr. Brown's paper contain a 
letter from Mr. Jack to Sir Stamford Raf- 
fles, detailing the discovery of the female 
flower by that gentleman, as related 
A second species, R. Horsfield, Mr. 
mentions as having been found by 
Dr. Horsfield, in Java: the two species, 
however, at present, are only to be distin- 
guished by the great difference in the size 
of the flowers: those of the one, R. Ar- 
noldit, being nearly three feet, of the other 
‘dly three inches, in diameter.—Their 
place in the Nat. System Mr. Brown con- 
siders to be near Asarinee or Passifloree. 
TAB. XIV. Fig. 1. Flowers of Raflesia Arnold 
taken from Mr. Francis Bauer's splendid figures in 
the Linnean Transactions : 
A third species has been detected by 
Dr. Blume, in Nousa Kambangan, a small 
island dependent on Java, situated at the 
mouth of the river. He had at first some 
buds only brought to him, which, from 
their structure, he judged might belong to 
& species of Rafflesia ; but till he went 
and gathered specimens himself in the 
island where alone it is said to grow, he 
had no idea of the real nature of the plant. 
It was in November, 1824, that he visited 
the spot, where, he says, in the account 
published in the ** Batavian Courant, for 
v 1825, “ It was upon the declivities 
of some limestone hills, densely covered 
with entangled and creeping shrubs, that 
the * Patma,’ as it is called by the natives, 
was to be found. One of the guides stop- 
ped from time to time, and having looked 
attentively at the shrubs, he suddenly 
pointed to a branch on which grew one 
It was instantly cut down, and be 
proved to be a species of Cissus,! known 
1 This is a different species from that on which 
Raflesia Arnoldi is a a parasite ;—C. scariosa, Bl. n. sp.; 
“ foliis pedatis triphyllis coriaceis glabris, foliolis 
i basi inequali-ro rotundatis apice ob- 
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to the natives by the name of Walieran, 
the blossoms of which, however, I could 
not procure. All the guides now strove to 
earn the reward which I offered for a cer- 
tain number of these vegetables, and a few 
. minutes had scarcely elapsed when a little 
bud was found growing out of the exposed 
root of the Cissus, lying upon the ground, 
and which had rather the appearance of an 
excrescence of the root itself than any natu- 
ral production. Two buds more were soon 
after brought me in different stages of 
growth: and indeed it,was an astonishing 
sight, which I shall never forget, when 
I beheld a large flower-bud, resembling a 
Cabbage-head, and very near its expansion 
—for the outer red-brown scales surround- 
ing the perianth lay loosely over each other, 
so that the upper part of the perianth, ex- 
d eian of a flesh-colour, was ve to 
j 
‘On another root of the Vine, I perceiv- 
ed, to my joy, a fully expanded flower of 
this wonderful plant, having a diameter of 
two feet, while within, the great column, 
beset with raised points, attracted the eye 
by its vivid carmine-red colour. 
These specimens were afterwards figured 
and described in the Flora Jave, where 
the author assigns to Rafflesia and his 
nearly allied genus Brugmansia, a new 
Order, RHIZANTHE, with the following 
character.—Flowers perfect, or by abor- 
tion dizecious. Perianth superior, simple, 
duplicate estivation. 
affixed in a simple series to the central 
column, inverted eee? opening with 
one or two pores at the apex. hea 
pium ( Peridium, Sporangium, Link.), on 
celled ; peas (Quer numerous, 
aedi 
the roots of other plants, 
stem, and leaves, consisting of a solitary 
flower, surrounded by seules." 
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