BOTANY. *$ 



HEART-LEAVED FTG, 



This is the tree which usually supplies the place of the 

 peepul in the public places, and in the neighborhood of 

 religious edifices. " It approaches," says Roxburgh, "near- 

 est to F. religibsa, of any species I know, yet it is easily 

 distinguished from it by the leaves being narrower in pro- 

 portion to the length, with much shorter points, and instead 

 of the lobes forming a sinus at the base there is a small de- 

 gree of projection at the insertion of the petiole. And in 

 the second place by the fruit being perfectly round and 

 not, as in religiosa, vertically compressed." 

 Ficus fordifolia. 



CYCAS. 



There is a very ornamental species of cycas in the Ka* 

 ren forests resembling a low palm, but which has never 

 yet been introduced around our European seats. 

 Cycas cir emails. ? 



PALMYRA PALM. 



The palms undoubtedly constitute the noblest tribe of 

 plants in the whole vegetable kingdom ; and there is a 

 large number of species indigenous, and cultivated in the 

 Provinces. Excepting the areca and cocoanut, the palmyra 

 palm, is more generally diffused than any other-. 

 Borassus fiahdliformis. 



WILD PALMYRA. 



The Provinces yield an indigenous palm which the na* 

 lives call the wild palmyra. It has the fruit of the pal- 

 myra, but the leaf differs from it sufficiently to constitute 

 it another species. 



Borassus. 



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