Note 279 — Chapter XXXIII

Bruce mentions in the previous chapter, p. 270, that he passed through a plain covered with seedra or lotus. No doubt, the zizyphus lotus is here alluded to, a shrub common in South Africa, the fruit of which, in a wild state, is just edible. When cultivated it is somewhat better, and is sold in Arab markets. This was probably the lotus of the Lotophagi.