feds of an unfavorable climate, and only make a faint 
and feeble attempt towards the middle of the day, at 
exerting their extraordinary faculty ; *a convincing 
proof how much the artificial heat of a northern ftove 
is inferior to the genial warmth and balmy foftnefs of 
its native Indian atmofphere ! It is there that it exerts 
its wonderful motions with unreftrained freedom, and 
is regarded as a facred plant, poffefled of powers fu- 
perior to the common race of vegetables. 
This voluntary motion is not analogous to any other 
yet obferved in plants : it is one of thofe numerous 
phenomena which we are obliged to view without un- 
derftanding, and to admire without being able to 
explain. 
The fpecimens raifed in Europe generally rife to 
about the height of two or three feet : the leaves are 
of a bright green with the middle part of a more 
glaucous appearance than the reft : the flowers are of a 
pale red, flightly tinged with blueilh, and fometimes 
yellow'ifh. 
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