THE LAUGHING PLANT.
The Laughing Plant is the name of a plant growing in Arabia, and is so called by reason of the effect produced upon those who eat its seeds. The plant is of moderate size, with bright yellow flowers and soft, velvety seed pods, each of which contains two or three seeds resembling small black beans. The natives of the district where the plant grows drv these seeds and reduce them to powder. A small dose of this powder has similar effects to those arising from the inhalation of laughing gas. It causes the most sober person to dance, shout, and laugh with the boisterous excitement of a madman, and to rush about cutting the most ridiculous capers for about an hour. At the expiration of this time exhaustion sets in, and the excited person falls asleep, to awake after several hours with no recollection of his antics.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 31, 5 August 1893, Page 71
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150THE LAUGHING PLANT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 31, 5 August 1893, Page 71
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