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LXV. 



Grains in Guzerat. Juarree, Bahjeree, Batty, or Rice. 



These latter grains, whose Linnean distinctions appear in the work, are 

 more nutritive and valuahle than those in the preceding plate. They were 

 all drawn and coloured from nature; and when fully ripe, clothe the 

 fertile purgunnas with the most luxuriant and varied beauty, in a pro- 

 vince deservedly named the Paradise of Nations. 



LXVI. 



The Wedded Banian Tree. 



This tree is so called in Hindostan, where the seed of the Palmyra (boras- 

 sus jlabelliformis) has been dropped by a bird, or scattered by the wind 

 into the decaying trunk of a burr, or banian-tree, (Ficus indica). The 

 trees thus united form a peculiar contrast, especially when the Palmyra 

 soars loftily above the spreading branches and picturesque trunks of the 

 burr. The trees from which this drawing was made grew near the bot- 

 tom of the excavated mountains in the island of Salsette; and were much 

 frequented by the Bay a, or bottle- nested sparrow. 



LXVI I. 



Hindoo Devotees of the Gosaing and Jetty Tribes. 



The various tribes and castes of Hindoo mendicants are fully described 

 in the Memoirs. The Gosaing with his lark is one of the Gymnosophists, 

 who generally travel throughout Hindostan without ciothes. The Jetty, 

 or Bramacharee, is another kind of beggar, who always ties a cloth over 

 his mouth, from the fear of inhaling some animalcula with his breath, and 



