148 Dr. Francis HaurLTON's Commentary 
cente, fructu exiguo cortici adnato, Sunutperai Malabarorum, 
which he places immediately after the Ficus religiosa, a species 
that does not send these fibres from its branches. It seems, 
however, to be on the first supposition of Plukenet alone that 
Linnæus and the younger Burman (F1. Ind. 226.) joined the 
Tsjela to the Ficus indica, placing it in the same variety with the 
Varinga latifolia of Rumphius (Herb. Amb. iii. 197. t. 84.), which 
cannot possibly be admitted (see my Commentary, Linn. Trans. 
xiii. 487.). It seems indeed difficult to suppose how Burman 
could imagine the Tsje/a, with leaves nearly lanceolate, to belong 
to the same species with the Katou Alou, which has ovate or 
cordate leaves. I indeed think it probable that this quotation 
arose from an error in the person who engraved the 64th plate 
in this volume of the Hortus Malabaricus, and who instead of 
Tsjakela has placed over it Tsjela ; so that Burman seeing this, 
considered it as the plate representing the Tsjela. 
I have already mentioned, when treating of the Katou Alou, 
that M. Lamarck selected it for his Ficus Indica ; but rejected 
- the Tsjela, as not sending roots from its branches; and neither 
he nor M. Poiret attempted to introduce it into the system. 
Willdenow, on the contrary, rejecting the Katou Alou, adopts 
the Tsjela for his Ficus Indica, leaving out from his specific cha- 
racter the essential words ramis radicantibus, used by Linnæus. 
Willdenow had seen specimens of his Ficus Indica; but whether 
they belonged to the Tsjela or to the Varinga latifolia it is impos- 
sible to say, as he quotes both. Dr. Roxburgh, who most pro- 
perly restored the name Ficus Indica to the Peralu, or Banyan- 
tree, and who was perfectly acquainted with the Tsjela, calls it 
Ficus Tsjela (Hort. Beng. 66.). 
- Besides the Tyjela, I have found in Gangetic India three other 
species so very nearly allied, that the names Nakur, Pakur, and 
Naksa are applied to them in a different manner by different 
persons, 
