Inventory 66, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate I. 



An Avenue of the Siamese Maikrabao Trees, Which Produce an 

 Oil Very Similar to That of the Chaulmoogra Tree. iHydnocar- 

 pus anthelminthica Pierre, S. P. I. No. 52468.) 



.Seeds from the trees shown here were forwarded to Washington under S. P. I. N'o. .')I77:}, and 

 later, under S. P. I. No. .5246>s, more seeds, collected from trees near Korat in eastern .Siain, 

 were sent in. The oil from these trees is very similar lo the true C'haulmooj;ra oil and is 

 used in the same wav in the treatment of leprosy. (Photographed by J. P. Rock, Kloag 

 Sarn, Bangkok, Siam", October, 1920; P22b2sFS.) 



