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��Read Jttne 17th, 1834.

��The principal object of the present communication is to complete, as far as my materials enable me, the history of Rajjlei^ia Arnoldi, the male flower of which is described and figured in the thirteenth volume of the Society's Transac- tions.

The specimens from which this additional information has been obtained, as well as those formerly described, were received from the late Sir Stamford Raffles; and for the draw- ings sobeautifully representing their structure, I am indebted to the same distinguished botanical painter and naturalist, who obligingly supplied those already published.

In my former essay some observations were made on the affinities of Rafflesia, a subject on which I could not then speak with much confidence. From such knowledge as I possessed, however, I ventured to state that this genus ap- peared to be most nearly ahied to Asarincn, and especially to Cytinus, on the one hand, and on the other to Aph/teia or Hydnora, an equally remarkable parasite of South xVfrica, but the structure of which was at that time very imper- fectly understood.

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