raffle sia

[Named after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), lieut.-governor of Java, and afterward of Bencoolen.] Bot.: The typical genus of Rafflesia cere (q. v.). The first and finest species discovered was Rafflesia ar noldi , found by Raffles and Dr. Arnold in Sumatra in 1818. The flower (there is no stem) is more than a yard acro , the lobes of the perianth a foot, the cup of a capacity to hold twelve pints, the estimated weight of the whole plant fifteen pounds. All this development takes place in a few months. The flowers are Rafflesia. fugacious, and have a fetid scent when they put trefy. R. arnold i is parasitic on a Ci us, as is R. patma from Java, where it is considered a powerful styptic. răf fie-şi-ā-çě-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. raffles i ( a ); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suft. - aceӕ.] Bot.: Raffles i ads; an order of Rhizogens. Stemle plants, having flowers immersed among scales, and growing directly from the surface of leaves. Perianth globose or campanulate, superior, limb five-parted, the throat surrounded by call i, either distinct or constituting a ring. Column salver shaped, or globose, with a row of anthers one or many-celled. Ovary inferior, one-celled, with parietal placente, and many seeds; fruit indehiscent. Parasites from the East Indies and South America. Known genera five, species sixteen. ( Lindley .) răf-fle-şi-ā-ceo us (c as sh), adj . [Mod. Lat. raffles i ace(a); Eng. suff. -ous .] Belonging to, or characteristic of, the Rafflesia cere. ( Nature , May 27, 1886, p. 78.)