Inventory 66, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate VII. 



The Chaulmoogra Tree of Burma. (.Taraktogenos kurzii King, 

 S. P. I. No. 52803.) 



Doctors MacDonald and Dean, of Hawaii, consider it to be established that the fatty acids of 

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

 this oil have been of great help in the treatment of this dread disease. The trees near the 

 native are chaulmoogra trees; the one in the foreground is an oak. (Photographed by J. F. 

 Rock, near Khoung Khew, Upper Chindwin, Northwest Burma, January 20, 1921; P22773FS.) 



