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. 52468.1 



Seeds from the trees shown here were forwarded to Washington under S. P. I. Xo. .51773, and 

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

 were sent in. The oil from these trees is very similar to the true chaulmoogra oil and is 

 used in the same wav in the treatment of leprosy. (Photographed by J. F. Rock, Klong 

 Sarn, Bangkok, .Siam', October, 1920; P2262SFS.) 



