CHAPTER KX. 
VEGETABLE VAGARIES. 
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 
W. Saville- Kent, Photo. 
“suB TEGMINE BOABI.” 
