374 ACCOUNT OF A NEW GENUS OF PLANTS, 



excited by the discovery of a flower of such extraordinary 

 dimensions, the male flower is in many respects so singular, 

 and its structure is so admirably illustrated by Mr. Bauer's 

 drawings, that, accompanied by them, even the present in- 

 complete account will probably be thought worthy of a 

 place in the Society's Transactions. 



Its publication is the less objectionable, as it may still be 

 a considerable time before the plant is met with in all its 

 states ; and however unsatisfactory our present materials 

 may be, either for determining its affinities, or the equally 

 important question, whether it be parasitic on the root to 

 which it is attached, there can be no doubt that it forms a 

 genus abundantly distinct from any that has hitherto been 

 described. 



It is proposed, in honour of Sir Stamford Raffles, to call 

 this genus Raeflesia, the name I am persuaded that Dr. 

 Arnold himself would have chosen had he lived to publish 

 an account of it ; and it may in the mean time be distin- 

 guished by the following characters ^ 



207] KAPFLESIA. 



PeriantMum raonophyllum, coloratum ; tubo ventri- 

 coso ; corona faucis annulari, indivisa; /zwi5o quinquepar- 

 tito, asquali. 



Mas. Columna (inclusa) : limbo apicis reclinato, subtus 

 simplici serie polyandro ; disco processibus (concentricis) 

 tecto. 



Anthera sessiles, subglobosse, cellulosse, poro apicis de- 

 hiscentes. 



Pem. 



Rafflesia Arnoldi. 

 Tab. 13—20 (XV— XXII.) 

 Descuiftio. 

 B Ttadice lignea horizontali tereti, leevi, crassitie fere et 



