6 Mr. "Brown's Account of a nezv Genus of Plants, 
paneled flower exhibited the same structure ; and the larger bud, 
which 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 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, ac¬ 
companied by them, even the present incomplete account will 
probably be thought worthy of a place in the Society’s Transac¬ 
tions. 
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 Baffles, to call this 
genus Raffeesia, 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 distinguished by the following 
characters. 
RAFTLESIA. 
