CHAPTER X. 



VEGETABLE 



AD Virgil emigrated to Australia "sub tegmine boabi" might have stood in place 

 of that allusion to the more homely beech which constitutes the prelude to 

 his familiar pastoral. The dense and welcome shade that the Boab or 

 Baobab is capable of affording the weary traveller, and his possibly wearier steed, is 

 well exemplified by the figure of a full-foliaged tree, reproduced in Chapter I., Plate V. 

 As indicated, indeed, in the accompanying illustration, the up-to-date Phyllis and 

 Adonis may not disdain to foregather beneath its 

 ample shelter and to dispense thereunder sweet 

 ambrosia in its more modern garb, bohea, to them- 

 selves and to the stranger who may be tarrying in 

 their midst. 



Verily, among Vegetable Vagaries the same 

 Baobab or Bottle-tree, Adansonia rupestris, is of 



"SUB TKGMINE BOAHI." 



IT. Saville-Kent, Photo. 



