Show the plant of arabia the laughing plant grows in A ara raia jia and has been given its name f from rom the effects produced by eating its seeds the plant is of moderate size biti I 1 right yellow flowers and soft velvety eed pods each of which contains two 1 I r three seeds resembling small lack alack beans the natives of the dis dia riet where the plant grows dry thea eds beds and reduce them to powder A mall dose of this powder has smilar milar effects to those arising from the inhalation of laughing gas it causes the most sober persons to dance shout and laum laugh with the boisterous excitement of if a madman and to rush about cutting he most ridiculous capers for about an aa hour at the expiration of this time haus tiou sets seta in and the excited person falls asleep to wake after several hours with no recollection whatever ot of his antics |