134 NATURAL HISTORY. 



I have found wild in the Koyna Valley ; at least I have found it 

 growing luxuriantly in a dense jungle near the Koyna, in a locality 

 far removed from any human habitations. The Britgmansia Can- 

 dida is not indigenous. It is, I believe, a native of Peru, but it has 

 found the climate and soil of Mahableshwar well suited to its 

 development, as it grows most luxuriantly over the hill, and has been 

 planted along the Fitzgerald Ghat Road. Its large, white, funnel- 

 like flowers render it a very conspicuous object. 



The Clematis Wightiana is not, as far as I know, found at Matheran, 

 nor does it extend much below the summit of Mahableshwar. 

 Its flowers are large and yellow, but as it flowers in January and 

 February, when the hill is not much frequented, its blossoms are rarely 

 seen. The plants in Orders 2 and 3 do not occur at Mahableshwar; 

 the Cocculus macrocarpns does not quite reach the hill summit, 

 though it may be found just below the Dhobi's Fall. Poly gala 

 persicaricefolia does not, I think, occur at Matheran, and indeed, is 

 rare at Mahableshwar. It may be met with on the path leading 

 from Lingmala Ravine towards the Waterfall. Ancistrocladus Hey- 

 neanus, though tolerably common at Matheran, does not reach Maha- 

 bleshwar; nor do the plants of the Order Guttiferm, immediately 

 preceding. Of the Malvaceae, neither Hibiscus Jiirtus, Thespcsia 

 Lampas, nor the Bomax, and of the Steeculiace^e, none of the plants 

 catalogued are to be found at Mahableshwar. The Triumfetta 

 rhomboidea is tolerably common, the Elceocarpus oblong us rare. 

 There is a good tree of the latter in Lingmala garden, and a couple 

 on the bank of the stream below the house. There is also a solitary 

 tree in the compound of Prospect Cottage, at the corner of the 

 Cross Road, just opposite the entrance gate of Temple Hall. Many 

 of the leaves of this tree turn red, which render it a conspicuous 

 object among the foliage of the woods, and the fringed petals of its 

 flowers are very beautiful, the brownish-red calyx appearing through 

 the interspaces between the petals. All the plants catalogued under 

 the genus Impatiens are to be found at Mahableshwar, among 

 them a very remarkable one, a yellow balsam (I. Valzellii). Evodia 

 Roxburghiana does not occur at Matheran, and is somewhat rare at 

 Mahableshwar. One tree (a male) may be found on the Panchgani 

 Road, a few yards beyond the turn to Kate's Point. There is another 

 tree at the 4th culvert on the Fitzgerald Ghat Road, and a little 

 further down the road, close to a culvert, are two trees, a male and 

 female. A knowledge of some localities where a tolerably rare plant 



