NOTE. 
Since publishing, at fol. 932, our remarks upon the relative position of 
the barren and fertile stamens of Cannes, and the degree of affinity conse- 
_ quent thereupon, between that order, and Orchidew, a friend has pointed 
out to us a passage, in a work of Mr. Brown’s long since published, in which 
a similar statement has been made. Of course we were not aware of the 
existence of this passage, at the time our article was sent to press, or we 
should have noticed it. We now, however, hasten to lay it before our 
readers, and in so doing, we may be allowed to express our satisfaction at 
finding our opinion, upon what is certainly an obscure, although, as we have 
endeavoured to demonstrate, an important point of structure, confirmed by 
the more acute observations of our much-valued friend. 
“‘ Marantese, or Cannes,” says this distinguished Botanist, ‘“ differ from 
Scitaminez in the mutual relation of their barren and fertile stamina, some- 
what as Cypripidium does from the other genera of Orchidesw ; except that 
in Marantez the imperfection is greater, a single lobe only of one of the 
lateral stamina having the appearance of an anthera, and producing pollen.” 
Brown in Appendix to Flinders, 2.575. 
