Show THE LARGEST FLOWER it weighs twenty ano pounds and is a yard in diameter Ga rAnft in the southeastern island of the philippine group mindanao Mind inao apon one ot ltd mountains parag la the ol 01 the highest peak on the land the volcano abo a party of botanical and explorers found recently at the height of 2600 feet above ahe sea leel a colossal flower the discoverer dr alexander adenberg Bih could scarcely betle e his ayes when he saw amid the low growing bushes the buds of this lower like bown b own cabbage headd but he BBS baill boore astonished when he found a specimen in full bloom a five flower nearly a yard in diameter aj large as a carriage wheel in fact this enormous waa borne on a sort of vine creeping on the ground the native who accompanied dr called it bolo the party had no scale by which the weight 0 the could be ascertained certa ined but they improvised a swinging ecale using their boxes and specimens aa weights Wel shing these blien opportunity served it was found that a single flower weighed over two pound it waa impossible to the treah flower so the traveler photographed it aid dried a number 0 its ie vea by the heat ot a fire dr then bent the photographs and dried apeci menu to the royal botanical gardena gard Bre elai chere the learned director immediately it aa a ape chea ol 01 a plant formerly discovered in matra and after the english governor sir stanford the new flower was accord naino 1 l Radle aia schaden baram the five petals of aln a flower are oval aal creamy white and grow around a center filled with countless long violet hoed stamens thicker and loneer in the fertile flower than in the infertile |