Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume XL, Number 48, 28 Nowemapa 1902 — PLANTS THAT COUGH. [ARTICLE]
PLANTS THAT COUGH.
Man h&3 aot a moaopoljr of eoufttiag. B«fore tfcere was a n?rtebmte on k he earth. whīle man was ia procesa of eTolm!oB tlirough the veget*ble world. Etad3 la i#hat botaaists eall him. while we know htm as 'the et>ughing beia"—coughed and blew dust out of his lungs. Receatly botaalsts have been giving special atteation $ to th!< bean. and te» inter«sting thiags \ about lt it la a aative of warm and \ mo£st trop!ca! countries. md object3' most emphatically to dust. When t dust settles oa ihe branching pores in; the leaves of the plant and chokes them a gas accumu2ates in?it!r. and when it F»ins sx»«eient pr*ssurc iher*. comt-s an expiosion wKh a sound eiactly like coughlnj? and the dust Mown from its lodcment. And. morp strange stlU. the plani gets red in the ( face through the effort.