Krameria

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noun A polypetalous genus of American herbs or undershrubs, referred by modern botanists to the order Polygaleæ, or milkwort family, but with such anomalous characters as to have been erected by some botanists into an order by itself, the Krameri-aceæ or Kramerieæ.

proper noun (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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"Krameria triandria" amended to _Krameria triandra_.

Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
(_Polylepis racemosa_, R. P.), or large patches of ground covered with the R.tanhia shrub [66] (_Krameria triandria_, R. P.).

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
Actually, 14th and Krameria is in Mayfair, across Colfax from (southernmost) Park Hill.

Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Pilgrim1620 2010
I would love to see residents of far east Denver who don't have a nearby grocery store be able to hop on the streetcar and head to the King Soopers and Safeway stores on Krameria and 14th.

Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local rwterry 2010
I would love to see residents of far east Denver who don't have a nearby grocery store be able to hop on the streetcar and head to the King Soopers and Safeway stores on Krameria and 14th.

Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local rwterry 2010
a Krameria (the Celtis is the Boolla of Upper Assam,)

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith