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APPENDIX. 
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To Corypha, Seaforthia, and Livistona, 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 Captain Cook) has 
at length been detected bearing fruit in the vicinity of En- 
deavour River. The existence of this palm, or rattan, on 
the East Coast, to which it is confined, seems almost to be 
limited to an area within the parallels of 15° and 17° South; 
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 forests 
investing the River Hastings, in latitude 31° South, 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 now 
be recognised as a sixth individual of the family whose 
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 opposite 
shores of the continent is very limited. Upon the North- 
west Coast, the genus Livistona alone has been remarked, 
in about latitude 15° South ; beyond which, throughout a 
very extensive line of depressed shore, towards the North- 
west Cape, no palms were seen. If the structure of a coast, 
and its natural disposition to produce either humidity or 
