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 NATURÆ CURIOSORUM; OF THE LITERARY
AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK; OF THE CAMBRIDGE
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY; OF THE WERNERIAN SOCIETY OF
EDINBURGH, AND OF THE WETTERAVIAN NATURAL
HISTORY SOCIETY. LIBRARIAN TO THE
LINNEAN SOCIETY.

[Reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Linnean Society.'
Vol. XIII, pp. 201–234.]

LONDON.

April, 1821.