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-* KRAMERIA TRIANDRA. TRIANDROUS, or PERUVIAN 
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SYNONYMA. Krameria triandra. Ruiz. Fl. Peruv. t.i. Icon. 93. Decand. 
Prodr.v,i. p. 341. Mem. Reg. Acad. Matrit. v.i. p. 364. 
Class TV. Tetrandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Nat. Ord. Polygalex, Juss. 
Gen. Char. Calyx of four, rarely of five leaves, silky without, coloured with- 
in. Petals three; two orbicular, the third formed of two or three clawed 
petals, united at their base. Stamens three or four, somewhat, monadel- 
phous at the base. Anthers opening with a double pore. Fruit globose, 
indeluscent, aculeated with bristles, one-celled, one-seeded. Embryo 
straight, in the centre of a fleshy albwmen.—Decand. 
Spec. Char. Leaves oblong-ovate, rather acute, clothed with silky hairs, 
Pedicel somewhat longer than the leaf, with two bracteas, and forming a 
short raceme. Stamens three. 
THE roots of this shrub are very long, much branched, and spread in every 
- direction; externally of a dark reddish brown, internally red, and having 
an intensely bitter, styptic taste; the stem is procumbent, round, and much 
branched ; the branches, when young, white and silky; but, as they grow 
older, the lower part becomes naked, and acquires a blackish colour, The 
leaves are scattered, sessile, oblong-ovate, pointed, entire, and covered with 
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