4 Mr. Brown’s Account of a new Genus of Plants , 
to the opposite one; Sir Stamford, Lady Raffles and myself 
taking immediate measures to be accurate in this respect, by 
pinning four large sheets of paper together, and cutting them to 
the precise size of the flower. The nectarium in the opinion of 
' all of us would hold twelve pints, and the weight of this prodigy 
we calculated to be fifteen pounds. 
“ ‘ I have said nothing about the stamina; in fact, I am not 
certain of the part I ought to call stamina. If the moniliform 
cord surrounding the base of the pistil were sessile anthers, it 
must be a polyandrous plant; but I am uncertain what the large 
germen contained; perhaps there might be concealed anthers 
within it. 
“ ‘ It was not examined on the spot, as it was intended to pre¬ 
serve it in spirits and examine it at more leisure ; but from the 
neglect of the persons to whom it was intrusted, the petals were 
destroyed by insects, the only part that retained its form being 
the pistil, which was put in spirits along with two large buds of 
the same flower, which I found attached to the same root: each 
of these is about as large as two fists. 
“ ‘ There were no leaves or branches to this plant; so that it 
is probable that the stems bearing leaves issue forth at a different 
period of the year. The soil where this plant grew was very rich, 
and covered with the excrement of elephants. 
‘ A guide from the interior of the country said, that such 
flowers were rare, but that he had seen several, and that the 
natives called them Krfihui. 
“ ‘ I have now nearly finished a coloured drawing of it on as 
large drawing-paper as I could procure, but it is still consider¬ 
ably under the natural size ; and I propose also to make another 
drawing of the pistil removed from the nectarium. 
“ ‘ I have now, I believe, given you as detailed an account of 
this prodigious plant as the subject admits of; indeed it is all I 
know 
