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‖ rafflesia Bot.|rəˈfliːʒɪə, -ˈiːzɪə|
[mod.L., named after Sir T. Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), British governor in Sumatra, who discovered the plant.]
A stemless, leafless, parasitic plant of the genus so called, of the family Rafflesiaceæ, native to Java and Sumatra, and remarkable for the size of its flowers.
[1818Raffles Letter in Memoir (1830) 316 The Sumatran name of this extraordinary production is Petimum Sikinlili or Devil's-Siri (betle) box.] 1821R. Brown in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII (1822) 206 It is proposed, in honour of Sir Stamford Raffles, to call this genus Rafflesia. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 74 Rafflesia is used in Java as a powerful astringent. 1883Good Words Dec. 788/2 Rafflesia..bears the largest flower of which we have any knowledge. 1933L. Ainsworth Confessions Planter in Malaya 111 This plant..is known as the ‘Rafflesia’, and is one of the largest parasites in the world. 1954R. E. Holttum Plant Life in Malaya xiv. 192 Rafflesia plants are only found in deeply shaded forest. |