Show india indi tree 71 ea A german authority on forestry announces the discovery in the primeval primat al forests of india of a tree with most curious and inexplicable characteristics the leaves of this tree are so 90 highly electrical that whoever touches one an of them receives a severe electric shock mode even upon the magnetic needle this chii tree iree to which the name philota cem cea electrical elec trica has been given I 1 has Z strong influence raus causing ilig magnetic agnatic va ra riat lons at a distance ot of about seventy feat the electrical strength of the tree varies nees according to the time of day lj Js but desp disappears entirely at midnight arlid ty ilila eara im wet met weather esree perta any insects ever eter beba egsa upon it |