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immense collections of the plants of Java, I find something 

 which perhaps may approach to it ; at any rate the buds of 

 the flower he has represented grow from the root precisely 

 in the same manner : his drawing, however, has a branch 

 of leaves, and I do not observe any satisfactory dissections. 

 He considers it as a new genus ; but the difference of the 

 two plants appears from this, that his full-blown flower is 

 about three inches across, whereas mine is three feet.' " 



Sir Stamford proceeds : 



" Dr. Arnold did not live to return to Bencoolen, nor to 

 fulfil the intentions expressed in the above extract ; but we 

 have finished the drawing of the whole flower, and it is 

 now forwarded under charge of Dr. liorsfield, to whom I 

 have also entrusted the pistil and buds. 



" I shall make exertions for procuring another specimen, 

 with which I hope we shall be more fortunate. 



(Signed) " T. S. Raffles. 



" To the Right Honorable 

 Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., G.C.B., &c. &c." 



The drawing of the expanded flower, and the specimens 

 mentioned in the preceding extract, were brought to Eng- 

 land by Dr. Horsfield ; and, having been put into my 

 hands, I proceeded without delay to examine the smaller 

 flower-bud. In this examination the antherse, although 

 not at first obvious, were soon discovered, but no part was 

 found which could be considered either as a perfect pistillum 

 or as indicating the probable nature or even the exact place 

 of the ovarium. The remains of the expanded flower pog 

 exhibited the same structure ; and the larger bud, Avhich was 

 examined by Mr. Bauer, whose beautiful drawings of it 

 form the most valuable part of the present communication, 

 proved also to be male. 



These materials, it must be admitted, are insufficient 

 even for the satisfactory establishment of the proposed new 

 genus, and in my opinion do not enable us absolutely to 

 determine its place in the natural system. 



The curiosity of botanists, however, has been so much 



