Note 4 — Chapter XXXI · GAYA. SAKYAMUNI’S ATTAINING TO THE BUDDHASHIP; AND OTHER LEGENDS.
James Legge translation
(4) Called “the tree of leaves,” and “the tree of reflection;” a palm tree, the borassus flabellifera, described as a tree which never loses its leaves. It is often confounded with the pippala. E. H., p. 92.