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drought be consulted, (a point, with respect to this order, 
as well as certain other tropical tribes, appearing very im- 
portant) those portions of the western shores recently seen, 
indicate no one character that would justify the supposition 
of the existence of the Palmae in the corresponding extremes 
of the respective parallels that produce them on the opposite 
or East Coast. Another remark relative to the economy of 
this family is, that in New Holland it seems confined to the 
coasts, Corypha australis, so frequent in particular shaded 
situations in the neighbourhood of Port Jackson, having 
never been detected in the vicinity of, or upon the moun- 
tains, much less in the distant country to the westward of 
that extensive boundary. 
AspHODELEiE.— Among the several described plants in 
the Herbarium, referred to this family, that were collected 
upon the East and South-west Coasts, are specimens in 
complete fructification of a remarkable plant of arbores- 
cent growth, having a caudex twenty feet high, and all 
the habits of Dracsena. It probably constitutes a new 
genus distinct from Cordyline of Commerson, to which, 
however, it appears closely allied ; and has an exten- 
sive range on the East Coast, where, although it has 
for the most part been observed within the tropic, it 
extends nevertheless as far as latitude .31° South. The 
only plants of Asphodelese remarked on the north-western 
shores, were an imperfect Tricoryne, probably Tenella of 
Mr. Brown, discovered by that gentleman during the In- 
vestigator’s voyage on the South Coast; and the intra- 
tropical Asparagus, which is frequent in latitude fifteen 
degrees South. 
CoNiFERiE. — To the general observations already made 
