Krameria

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Krameria \Kra*me"ri*a\, prop. n. [NL. So called after the German
     botanists, J. G. H. Kramer & W. H. Kramer.] (Bot.)
     A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one species
     of which ({Krameria triandra}), found in Peru, rhatany root,
     used as a medicine, is obtained.
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