Show FIR TREE OF THE PAGODAS INDIA nc n L rk IN r jw ay V A zi it al rl M RM W r 1 U YA ki WS raw e the above illustration shows a tree of 0 india known as the ricus reli giosa fig tree of 0 the pagodas this la Is one of it the most notable that embellishes the landscape of that country it Is provi provided did with adventitious roots which reach out from the branches and find their way to the ground at first these roots are very thin and small till they touch the sol soil when they at once begin to enlarge and develop largely these as they develop form columns around the trees and thus colonnades of considerable length are formed the natives delight to build chapels in the intervals of spaces formed by these adventitious roots and it is from this that the tree receives its name |