Show to look into properties of odd jungle plants plants that kill plants that inspire strange dreams and one that paralyzes fish but does doe not make them hem unfit tor for food have been brought to washington by scientists under doctor killip of the smithson ian institution ution who have just returned from the headwaters of the amazon and the mountains of 0 peru nearly plants from the ama conlan jungles and peruvian mountain tops were collected thousands of 0 them have never been identified one of these Is the vine or carpl from which indian medicine men obtain a drug that produces violent nervous reactions and Is I 1 swallowed to evoke prophetic visions Is lons other plants in the collection yield barbasco har basco a milky poison which poured into a river paralyzes all the elsh in a considerable are area a and an d enables the indians to catch them easily london tit bits |