Natural Orders .] 
APPENDIX. 
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Marantece., or Cannece, * an order at present referred to Scitaminese, 
may also be reduced to this type ; they differ, however, from Scitamineee 
in the mutual relation of their barren and fertile stamina, somewhat as 
Cypripedium does from the other genera of Orchideae ; except that in Ma~ 
rantese the imperfection is greater, a single lobe only of one of the lateral 
stamina having the appearance of an anthera and producing pollen. 
It is remarkable that so very few Orchideae of Terra Australis belong 
to that section of the order with ahgular elastic pollen and adnate anthera ; 
this section being not only the most numerous in Europe, but existing in an 
equal proportion, though singularly modified, at the Cape of Good Hope. 
Of another section of the order formerly comprehended under the 
Linnean genus Epidendrum, most of which, though not properly parasiti- 
cal. grow upon trees, several species, chiefly belonging to Dendrobium, are 
found in New Holland. In the northern hemisphere very few plants of this 
section that grow on trees have been observed beyond the tropic. The 
only exceptions to this, that I am acquainted with, consist of two species 
of a genus related to Dendrobium, discovered by Dr. Buchannan, in Upper 
Nepaul ; + of Dendrobium moniliforme, observed by Kaempfer, and Thun- 
berg, in Japan, near Nagasaki : and of Epidendrum conopseum, X which, 
according to Mr. William Bertram, grows in East Florida, in lat. 28° N. 
In some parts of the southern hemisphere this' section appears to 
have a more extensive range. On the East coast of New Holland several 
species of Dendrobium and Cymbidium are found in 34° S. lat. ; but this 
is probably about their southern limit in that country, no species having- 
been met with on any part; of its South coast. They have, however, been 
observed in a considerably higher latitude in New Zealand, in the northern 
island of which several species were collected by Sir Joseph Banks, in 
about 38° S. lat., and Epidendrum autumnale of Forster grows in the 
neighbourhood of Dusky Bay, in upwards of 45° S. lat. 
I am not acquainted with the limit of this section in South America ; 
but in South Africa, at the Cape of Good Hope none of those, at least, 
that are parasitical on trees, have been observed. 
* hoc. citat. 307 - 
t Epidendrum prmcsox and Epidendrum humile. Smith exot. hot. tabb. 97 and 98. 
7 Hort, Keiu. ed. 2. vol. 5. p. 219 . 
