Pygmy Island

In this entry in the Jungle Jim adventure series, the courageous hero must locate an army captain who has vanished in the jungle. As he follows the trail, Jim gets himself entangled with international spies who wish to use the precocious fiberglass plant to manufacture instruments of destruction. Jim also tangles with the usual assortment of jungle critters, bad-guys, and angry natives. Soon he discovers that the army captain is a pretty WAC.