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Ka Hana Kapa. 



entire, with 8-10 pairs of veins, 3 inches broad. Twin frnits axillarj', pednncnlate, 

 globose, little larger than a pea. The nse of the fruit has been described on page 12 

 and need not be repeated here. The illustration is taken from PI. LXIII of Seemann's 

 Flora Vitiensis. 



F. bengalensis Linn. Hort. Cliff. 471, n. 4. — The Banyan. A tree 70-100 ft. 

 high, rooting from the branches, and thus forming accessory trunks, greatly extend- 

 ing the growth of the tree (I have seen in India an example covering four acres). 



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Leaves 4-8X2-4 in., glabrescent above, beneath glabrous or minutely- pubescent, re- 

 ticulations distinct; nerves about 5 pairs, prominent; petiole I'z-Z in., stout, stipules 

 -)4-i in., cori- aceous. I'ruits sessile in pairs, axillary, globose puberulous, red and 

 about the size of a small cherry when ripe, with three broad, rounded, spreading basal 

 bracts. Tree planted in all the plains of India; wild onl}' in the sub-Himala3'an 

 forests and on the lower slopes of the Deccan Hills. Cultivated also in the Hawaiian 

 Islands. I made the photograph from which Fig. 78 has been engraved more 

 than twenty- jears ago, and on seeking the tree for the purpose of assuring myself 



