To Brahma are sacred the _Butea frondosa_, the _Ficus glomerata_, the Mulberry (the seed of Brahma), the _Clerodendron Siphonanthus_, the _Hemionitis cordifolia_ (leaf of Brahma), the _Saccharum Munga_ (with which is formed the sacred girdle of the Brahmans), and the _Poa cynosuroides_, or Kusa Grass, a species of Vervain, employed in Hindu sacrificial rites, and held in such sanctity as to be acknowledged as a god. The Peepul or Bo-tree (_Ficus religiosa_) is held sacred by Buddhists as the Holy Tree and the Tree of Knowledge. The Burmese Buddhists surround their Pagodas and religious houses with trees, for which they entertain a high regard. The first holy men dwelt under the shade of forest trees, and from that circumstance, in the Burmese cultus, every Budh is specially connected with some tree--as Shin Gautama with the Banyan, under which he attained his full dignity, and the _Shorea robusta_, under which he was born and died--and, as we are told, the last Budh of this world cycle, Areemadehya, will receive his Buddhaship under the _Mesua ferrea_. The Burman also regards the Eugenia as a plant of peculiar sanctity--a protective from all harm. The Jamboa, or Rose Apple, is held in much reverence in Thibet, where it is looked upon as the representative of the mystical _Amrita_, the tree which in Paradise produces the _amrita_ or ambrosia of the gods. The Cedar has always been regarded by the Jews as a sacred tree; and to this day the Maronites, Greeks, and Armenians go up to the Cedars of Lebanon, at the Feast of the Transfiguration, and celebrate Mass at their feet. To the ancient inhabitants of Northern Europe the Elm and the Ash were objects of especial veneration. Many sacred trees or pillars, formed of the living trunks of trees, have been found in Germany, called _Irminseule_, one of which was destroyed by Charlemagne in 772, in Westphalia. The Mountain Ash, or Rowan Tree, was, in olden times, an object of great veneration in Britain; and in Evelyn’s day was reputed of such sanctity in Wales, that there was not a churchyard that did not contain one. The colossal Baobab (_Adansonia_) is worshipped as a divinity by the negroes of Senegambia. The Nipa or Susa Palm (_Nipa fruticans_) is the sacred tree of Borneo. The gigantic Dragon Tree (_Dracæna Draco_) of Orotava was for centuries the object of deep reverence to the aborigines of the Canary Isles. The Zamang of Guayra, an enormous Mimosa, has from time immemorial been held sacred in the province of Caracas. The Moriche Palm (_Mauritia flexuosa_) is considered a deity by the Tamancas, a tribe of Oronoco Indians, and is held sacred by the aboriginal Mexicans.