It was not in flower, so I can not say whether it is a solanaceous plant or not.

One never expects to find a grave nor a stone of remembrance set up in Africa; the very rocks are illiterate, they contain so few fossils.

Those here are of reddish variegated, hardened sandstone, with madrepore holes in it.

This, and broad horizontal strata of trap, sometimes a hundred miles in extent, and each layer having an inch or so of black silicious matter on it, as if it had floated there while in a state of fusion, form a great part of the bottom of the central valley.

These rocks, in the southern part of the country especially, are often covered with twelve or fifteen feet of soft calcareous tufa.