Show TIlL UNYAN TIOLI 4 us iI I t P is Sk On thin pogo wo how an Illustration of a Ibnjan Irtn This Is PeculIar O to Indlj The leaves aro henrtehipcd and nro pointed nt tho tip This cgc table Is weak In itself but has Iho quality qual-ity of making ItMlf supported by oIl era It 1 miy bo that from this quality It derives Its name as tho word banyan In India means a trader and especially a trader with foreigners Ihoea trees like Iho trailers develop with tho assistance as-sistance of albino A binyan treo will send down rootlets root-lets from every branch These little DlnroentR Increase In slio till hey roach tho ground They then send out alronK roots and tho filament that collIe down from tho branch dot clops and be comes n great trunk Through this process pro-cess tho single tree often becomes n great forest Tho admiral of Alexander describes such n one nnd III Is supposed that U Is standing today though somewhat I some-what cut away by Hoods that hone inado great Inroads on It A 1rcnih traveler describes a forest that 1 had nil grown from n slnclo tree hl II all limo roots and all the great nat n-at tho forest being united Other travelers trav-elers say they hau counted 3000 trunks all originating and still connected with the sumo trunk Others describe groups of trunks 2000 feet In circumference Former lie low |