CATALOGUE. Ill 



CATALOGUE. 



NOTE.— In the first two columns, the nomenclature adopted for the first 74 

 Orders is that of Hooker's "Flora of British India," Vols. I. — IV., and Vol., V. 

 Part L, which do not include Orders 75 — 99, represented in this Catalogue. 

 The synonyms in the second column, in the case of plants belonging to the first 

 74 Orders, are the names under which the plants ate described in Dalzell 

 and Gibson's " Bombay Flora," or in Graham's " Catalogue." The words " Herb. 

 Co" after the name of a plant in this column, indicate that the Mahableshwar 

 herbarium, presented to the Society by Dr. Theodore Cooke, contains a specimen 

 of the plant. In the third column, the vernacular names are spelt according to 

 the Hunter ian system. The word ' vel' or 'yel,' ichich recnrs frequently as a 

 component part of a name, means a ' creeper ' or ' climber.' The words ' lahan ' 

 and ' dhakta' {fern, 'dhakti') mean 'small,' : motha' {ftm. 'mothi') means 'big,' 

 ' pandhra' means 'white,' ' kala ' 'black,' ' tambda' 'red, and ' kadu' 'litter.' 

 ' The prefix ' ran' indicates a 'jungle ' plant, or, as we should say, 'a wild plant,' 

 though all the hill plants in the list are probably wild or indigenous on 

 Mahableshwar or Matheran, with the exception perhaps of the large-flowered' 

 yellow flax (Reir.wardtia trigyna), the Indian raspberry (Rnbus lasiocarpus), 

 the strawberry (Fragaria vesca), the Brugmansia condida, the mulberry (Morns 

 arropurpurea), and the Jaek-iree [Artocarpus integrifolia). The Reinwardtia is said, 

 however, by Major H. H. Lee, R. E., to be "found truly wild on Varandha Ghat" 

 in the Satara District. ("Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency," Vol. XIX. 

 App. A.) The Morns atropurpurea of the Mahableshwar gardens is, perhaps, a 

 variety of Morus alba, the home of which "is probably China." (Brandis.) 

 According to Wight and Beddome, the Jack-tree is " wild in the mountain forests of 

 the Western Ghats, ascending to 4,000 feet." But Dr. Brandis remarks that 

 " regarding its native home there is yet some uncertainty." 



Natural Order. 



Genas and Species. 



Vernacular or English name, use, 

 habitat, Ac- 



Division A — Vasculaees. — (Plants with woody fbre and cellular tissue). 



c lass[_i . — dlcotyledones. * 



Sub-Class — 1 Thalamiflorje,. + 



1 Ranunculaceze (The 

 Butter-cup Order.) 



2 Dilleniaceae 



Clematis Gouriana, Herb 

 Co. 



,, Wightiana 



Dillenia pentagyna 



Mor-vel, Mor-yel, Ranjai. Travel- 

 ler's joy. Matheran ; Koyna Valley. 

 ib. Mahableshwar. 

 Karambel, Dhakta Karmal. 



* In the seeds of Dycotyledones there are always two cotyledons at least, and if 

 there are two only they are always opposite. 



t The differences of the four sub-classes into which De Candolle divides the class 

 of Exogens or Dicotyledones " might be, in most cases, expressed thus : — 



1. Polypetalous. 



Stamens hypogynous = Thai 'ami 'florce. 



Stamens perigynous = Calyciftorce. 



2. Monopetalous = Corolliflorce. 



3. Apetalous = Monochlawydem. 



' It is, however, to be observed that some of the Calyciflorae and Thalamiflona 

 have a monopetalous corolla. In this classification, the student proceeds from what, 



