AN ACCOUNT 
OF 
A NEW GENUS OF PLANTS , 
NAMED 
RAFFLESIA. 
By ROBERT BROWN, F.R.S. 
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, AND OF THE ROYAL ACADEMIES 
OF SCIENCES OF BERLIN AND MUNICH : MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY NATUR.E CURIO- 
SORUM : OF THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: OF 
THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: OF THE WERNERIAN 
SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, AND OF THE WETTBRAVIAN 
NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
LIBRARIAN TO THE LINNIAN SOCIETY. 
From the Transactions of the Linxean Society, Vol. xiii v 
LONDON: 
PRINTED BY RICHARD AND ARTHUR TAYLOR, SHOE*LANE, 
April, 1821 . 
