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  APPENDIX. [B. To Corha, 5eaforthla, and Livlstone, 'the only three genera that have been enumerated in the productions of the Australian Flora, may now be added Calamus; of which a species (discovered without fructification, by Sir Joseph Banks, during the celebrated voyage of CapOn Cook) has at length been detected bearing fruit in the vicinity of dearour River. The existence of this palm, or rattan, the East Coast, to which it is confined, seems almost to limited to an area within the parallels of 15 � 17�h: should, however, its range be more extensive, it is southerly one or two degrees, in which direction a remarkable primary granitic formation of the coast continues, throughout the whole neighbourhood of which is a peculiar density of dark moist forest, seemingly dependent on it, and evidently indispensable to the life of this species of Calamus  but at the termination of this geological structure, it most probably ceases to exist. A dioecious palm of low stature, and in habit similar to Seaforthia, was detected in the shaded foreat investing the River Hastings, in latitude 31 �th, bearing male, flowers; but as it may prove to be a dwarf state of a species of that genus, which has lately been observed, with all its tropical habits, in a higher latitude, it cannot n,ow. be recognised as a sixth individual of the family whoe fructification has been seen. Although this order has been observed, to be sparingly scattered along the line of East Coast almost to the thirty-. fifth degree of south latitude, its range on the oppesite shores of the continent is very limited. Upon the North- west Coast, the genus Livistona alone has been remarked in about latitude 15 �th; beyond which, throughout a very extensive line of depressed shore, towards the lorth- went Cape, no palms were seen. If the structure of a coast, and its natural disposition to produce either humidity

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