Show to look into properties of odd jungle plants plants that kill plants that inspire strange dreams dr and one that paralyzes fish but does doea not make thern them unfit for food have been brought to washington by scientists under doctor killip of the smithsonian institution ution who have just returned from the headwaters of the amazon and the mountains of peru nearly plants from the amazonian jungles and peruvian mountain tops we ware re collected thousands of them have never been identified one of those these Is the ay asee vine or canil from which indian medicine men obtain a drug that produces violent nervous reactions and Is I 1 swallowed to evoke prophetic visions other plants in the collection yield har barbasco basco a milky poison which poured into a river paralyzes nil all the fish in a considerable area and enables the indians to catch them easily london tit bits |