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Dendrohium Macrcei^ a curious looking orchid with many large 

 pseudo-bulbs, and a single leaf growing out of the terminal one, is 

 very rare at Mahableshwar, and is not to be found at Matheran. It 

 is very abundant in the Koyna Valley, some of the old trees along the 

 river being literally covered with thiS; Dendrohium ramosissimum^ and 

 the bulbs of the Cirrhopetalum fimhr latum . A visit to the Koyna 

 Valley will amply repay a plant-hunter. The ferns and orchids in 

 some parts near the river are in the greatest profusion, and must be 

 seen to be appreciated. 



Of the two hills, Matheran and Mahableshwar, the former has the 

 more varied flora, but several plants are found in Mahableshwar which 

 do not exist at the lower elevation of Matheran. I have made a rough 

 estimate, which is not correct to a dozen plants or so, that there are 

 about 140 plants (excluding grasses) which occur at Matheran, and 

 which do not occur at Mahableshwar, and that there are about 130 

 plants which are found at Mahableshwar, and not on Matheran, while 

 there are perhaps 140 common to both hills. . , . . . 

 T. Cooke, ll.d., f.g.s. 



In now reproducing the above Note, I have in some places altered 

 the scientific names used by Dr. Cooke, as I have thought it better to 

 follow the nomenclature of Hooker's Flora of British India, as in 

 the Catalogue. 



On the Flora of Partabgarh, which is really a part of the Maha- 

 bleshwar system, the late Mr. Chester Macnaghten sent me some 

 years ago the following note : — 



" On Partabgarh I made a general note that its flora resembled 

 that of Matheran ; for we find on that historical hill, in addition to the 

 Mahableshwar trees, a great abundance of the others so characteristic 

 of Matheran — Grewia Microcos^ Lager stcemia parviflora^ Woodfordia 

 Jloribunda, Casearia graveolens, Alhizzia stipulata, Leea, staphylea^ 

 [L. samhucina in the Catalogue), Coccidus macrocarpus^ Careya arborea 

 and Heterophragma Roxburghii.^^—Ji, B. 



