Mingled with these in smaller quantities are acacias and the fragrant sandalwood, while the higher mountains, which rise to about six or seven thousand feet, are either covered with coarse grass or are altogether barren.

In the lower grounds are a variety of weedy bushes, and open waste places are covered everywhere with a nettle-like wild mint.

Here is found the beautiful crown lily, Gloriosa superba, winding among the bushes, and displaying its magnificent blossoms in great profusion.

A wild vine also occurs, bearing great irregular bunches of hairy grapes of a coarse but very luscious flavour.

In some of the valleys where the vegetation is richer, thorny shrubs and climbers are so abundant as to make the thickets quite impenetrable.
The soil seems very poor, consisting chiefly of decomposing clayey shales; and the bare earth and rock is almost everywhere visible.