Inventory 66, Seeds and Plants Importeo. PLATE VIII 



Fruits of the Chaulmoogra Tree. (Taraktogenos kurzii King, S. P. I. 



No. 52803.) 



These fruits, shown here in natural size, are of a light fawn color. The oil is pressed cold from the 

 kernels of the seeds after the seeds have been thoroughly washed, dried in the sun for one or two 

 days, shelled, and the kernels crushed between corrugated-iron rollers. It is preparations of 

 the ethyl esters of this oil that have been used so successfully in the treatment of leprosy. (Pho- 

 tographed by J. F. Rock, near Kyokta, Upper Chindwin, Burma, January, 1921; P2275irS.) 



