148 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commeiitary 



cente, fnictu erigito cortici aduato, Sunutpcrai JMalabaroriim, 

 which he phices immediately after the Ficus religiosa, a species 

 that does not send these fibres from its branches. Jt seems, 

 however, to be on the first supposition of Plukenet alone that 

 Linnanis and the younger Burman (F/. Ind. '226.) joined the 

 Tsjcla to the Ficus indica, placing it in the same variety with the 

 Variuga lutifoVut of Rumphius {Herb. Amb. iii. 127. t. 84.), which 

 cannot possibly be admitted (see my Commentarjr, Linn. Trans. 

 xiii. 487.). It seems indeed difficult to suppose how Burman 

 could imagine the T.sje/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 Mahiharicus, and who instead of 

 Tsjakela has placed over it Tsjela ; so that l^urman seeing this, 

 considered it as the plate representing the Tsjela. 



I have already mentioned, Avhen 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 Linnaeus. 

 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 Tsjela, I have found in Gangetic India three other 

 species so very nearly allied, that the names Nakur, Fakur, and 

 Naksa are applied to them in a difierent manner by different 



persons. 



