OCR Text |
Show Remarkable East Indian Trcs. A treo remarkablo for Ite long taproot, tap-root, sometimes measuring $4 feet and descending to a vertical depth of lil foot, has been brought to notlco by B. O. Coventry. It Is tho Jand treo, which forms Bmall forests on tho arid allu-vlul allu-vlul plains of tho Punjab, where tho rainfall Is ton Inches or loss, nnd tho taproot Is supposed to have dovolopud gradually as tho groundwater lovot was lowered by tho lowering of tho rlvcra through erosion of tholr beds. |