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ZONES AND REGIONS 



[Pt. Ill, Sect. I 



Like many other arborescent forms of this group, the banyan is an epiphyte 

 proper in its youth only. When once it has developed its absorbing-roots, which 



in this case resemble columns and become very thick, and when the original host- 

 tree is dead, the banyan becomes quite an independent plant. New absorbing-roots, 



