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NATURAL HISTORY. 



* Dysophylla gracilis is probably only a tall form of D. stellata. (Hooker, Vol. IV. 

 p. 641). The latter plant can be readily known, when in flower in October, by its 

 narrow, linear, whorled leaves, and its slender spikes of minute, closely-packed, dark 

 purple flowers. Tt grows in patches on the roadside near Sydney Point, Mahableshwar. 



