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3. R. Brown in Linn Tran. on Rafflesia

Hydnora most curious genus, 2 species in S. Africa, & one in Mendoza – Most rare in all places – a parasite on roots – Hooker remarks how extraordinary that such a rare parent-plant shd have been transported – no other similar affinity between S. America & Cape –

Jany 36 Mountains of Assam has a Balanophorus like the New World division there 16 or 17 other species old world forms

Hooker insists on the wonder of the one Antarctic Juncus being same in Antartic islands. – More actual species common to W. Africa & East Brazil, but the proportion of common species so wonderful in these antarctic islands. (latter genus ancient in America

The rarity of Hydnora argument for extinction & most curious ie anomalous genus ie extinction has been at work, so for the case of Araucaria??

Has Hydnora been a [illeg] genus, line extinct – it is supposed that larœ transport seeds.

[Robert Brown. 1842. Description of the female flower and fruit of Rafflesia Arnoldi, with remarks on its affinities; and an illustration of the structure of Hydnora Africana. Read 17 June 1834. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, vol. 19: 221-247.]