The Clock Plant

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 August 1911, Page 4

The Clock Plant

Tlie-re is a plant. \ native o! I' - lien, wliicb i.s -kiii)i\n as the ■"clock plant." The name i.s derived from (he action of the .sun's ray.s on tJn> leaves, which are tlirco in number--a laiv;' one ex! I in.!-; Foi-wartl, with two small ones al tii" !"i-e extending sideways. ;~i -.-. < ...ning in. contact with the days of the - nv, oscillato like the ji.'ii.iulum ..; : oloek, the larjver leaf "I'lvin-.-; ir.'-.vards and down wards, £"'••"£ ' ls '■'" length everv forty-live lninutes, ibo .smal-l-.i- leaves iiioving towards the 1-nr-m'l,,, eompleto-ing tlio diistanco forward and backward every forty-live minutes, thus assembling tho .hour and minute- hands of a clock.