"It is called the _aoa_ here, if I recollect rightly, and has a wonderful peculiarity about it.

What an enormous one it is, to be sure." "_It_!" repeated Peterkin; "why, there are dozens of banians here! What do you mean by talking bad grammar?
Is your philosophy deserting you, Jack ?" "There is but one tree here of this kind," returned Jack, "as you will perceive if you will examine it." And, sure enough, we did find that what we had supposed was a forest of trees was in reality only one.

Its bark was of a light colour, and had a shining appearance, the leaves being lance-shaped, small, and of a beautiful pea-green.

But the wonderful thing about it was, that the branches, which grew out from the stem horizontally, sent down long shoots or fibres to the ground, which, taking root, had themselves become trees, and were covered with bark like the tree itself.

Many of these fibres had descended from the branches at various distances, and thus supported them on natural pillars, some of which were so large and strong, that it was not easy at first to distinguish the offspring from the parent stem.