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7.3. Placsha : 



Syn. Jati, Pare at 1. 



Vulg. Pdcari, Pdcar. 



Linn. Indian Ficus citron-leayed ; but all four are 



Indian. 

 Trail sessile, small, mostly twin, crouded, whitish. 

 Leaves oblong, hearted, pointed, with very long 



slender petiols. 



74. Vat a : 



Syn. Nyagrodha, Bahupdt. 



Vulg. Ber. 



Linn. Bengal Ficus, but all are found in this pro- 

 vince, and none peculiar to it. 



Fruit roundish, blood-red, navelled, mostly twin, 

 sessile. Calyx three-leaved, imbricated. 



Leaves some hearted, mostly egged, obtuse, broad- 

 ish, most entire, petiols thick, short, 'branches ra- 

 dicating. 

 The Sanscrit name is given also to the very targe 



ficus Iuaica, with radicating branches, and to some 



other varieties of that species. Van Rheede has 



by mistake transferred the name AszvatVha to the 



Placsha, which is never so called. 



75. Car ac a : 



Syn. Bhauma, Ch'katraca, 



Vu LG. 



Linn. Fungus Agaric. 



This and the Phallus are the only fungi, which I 

 have yet seen in India : the ancient Hindus held the 

 fungus in such detestation, that Y \ma, a legislator, 

 supposed now to be the judge of departeu spirits, 



Vol. IV. Y declares 



