72. In connexion with cats, a Singhalese gentleman has described to me a plant in Ceylon, called cuppa-mayniya by the natives; by which he says cats are so enchanted, that they play with it as they would with, a captured mouse; throwing if into the air, watching it till it falls, and crouching to see if it will move.
"Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon"
J. Emerson Tennent