Inventory 66, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate VII. 



The Chaulmoogra 



Tree of Burma. iTaraktogenos 

 S. P. I. No. 52803.) 



KURZii King, 



Doctors MacDonald and Dean, of liauaii, consider il lo bo ostablishod llial the faltv acids of 

 the oil from the seeds of this tree are specific in leprosy, and il is certain tliat preparations of 

 this oil have been of great heljj in the treatment of this dread disease. Tlie trees near the 

 native are chaiilmoo.ura trees: the one in the foretiroujid is an oak. ( Phot oj;ra plied by .1. V. 

 Roc'k, near Khoung Khew, Upper C'hindwin, .Northwest Burma, January 20, lir.'l; P2L'f7:5FS.) 



