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Looking through the list, so carefully and laboriously prepared by 

 Mr. Justice Birdwood, I would make the following remarks : — ■ 



The Reimoardtia trigyna, which, in the introductory note to the 

 Catalogue, is said to have been found truly wild on Varandha Ghat, 

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

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

 far removed from any human habitations. The Brugmansia 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 Eoad. 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, Avheu 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 macrocarpus does not quite reach the hill summit, 

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

 persicaricefoJia 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. Aneistrodadus Hey- 

 nea^ius, though tolerably common at Matheran, does not reach Maha- 

 bleshwar ; nor do the plants of the Order Guttifer^, immediately 

 preceding. Of the Malvacbje, neither Hibiscus Mrtus^ Thespesia 

 Larapasj nor the Bomhax, and of the STEECULiACEiiS, none of the plants 

 catalogued are to be found at Mahableshwar. The Triumfetta 

 rhomboidea is tolerably common, the Elmocarpus oUongus 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 



* " Ekeocarpus oblongus glows in luxuriant abundance all along the stream above Ling- 

 mala Falls, It is in full flower at the end of May" (C. Macnagbten). It is also fairly 

 abundant in the woods at Lingmala. I have noticed it also on the Panchgani road, about 

 two miles from Mahableshwar.— H. B. 



