PI. 349 
CHAULMOOGRA PLANTS, SOURCE OF THE DRUG BELIEVED TO CURE LEPROSY. 
(Taraktogenos hurzii King; S. P. I. No. 56633.) 
The adventurous journey of Agricultural Explorer J. F. Kock in search of the chaulmoogra 
tree, source of a drug which repeated experiments have shown to possess immense value 
in the treatment of leprosy, not only resulted in clearing up the mystery which surrounded 
the identity of this plant but furnished supplies of seeds by means of which it is hoped to 
establish chaulmoogra plantations in Hawaii and elsewhere. Three thousand young 
Slants, shown above in one of the greenhouses at the Plant Introduction Garden, Bell, 
[d., have been grown during the past season and are being distributed widely in tropical 
countries. (Photographed by Wilson Popenoe, August 27, 1923; P35027FS.) 
