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of apang, the burred fruits of chor-kanta or bhant, 

 and the hooked fruits of ban-okra {Urena lobata). 

 The undigested seeds, especially those of Grasses 

 on which grazing cattle feed, pass out with the 

 excrements with the germinating power unimpaired, 

 and are thus distributed. Animals like jackals and 

 bears, which feed upon such fruits as kul, khejur, 

 kantal, &c., distribute their seeds in the same way as 

 the cattle. Parrots and parakeets bite off the ears 

 of many grasses and carry them to great distances. 

 Field rats, by their habit of carrying and 

 burying seeds and fruits, promote dis- 

 semination. Under many trees on which 

 bats are seen clinging in large numbers 

 during the day, Country Almond, supari, 

 and other fruits are found in abundance 

 in the morning, no doubt carried by the 

 Fig. 128.— Bag-- batsduring their night excursions. Fruits 

 ImT"''""''^ like those of charapa on dehiscing expose 

 curious -looking red seeds, suspended 

 from them like so many Chinese lanterns. These 

 seeds attract from a great distance birds which re- 

 move them from the fruits and leave them on the 

 branches of trees on which they wipe their beaks.. 

 The succulence and agreeable taste of many fruits 

 also promote their dispersal, the fruits being eaten 

 by animals, and the seeds either rejected by them or 

 passing through their alimentary canal without being 

 injured, as am, jam, khejur, kantal, phuti, tarmuz, 

 Guava, Papaw, bael, &c. The red-coloured fruits of 

 bot and aswathwa attract crows and mainas from 

 great distances, which regularly feed upon them, and 

 wherever their droppings fall, there these trees spring 

 up. This accounts for the curious situations in which 

 they are found, such as the roofs and cornices of 



