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Cybistax Antisyphilitica

A plant of the order of _Bignoniaceae_, called Atunyangua in the Andes of Peru, where the inhabitants dye their cotton clothes by boiling them along with the leaves of this plant; the dye is a permanent blue. The bark of the young shoots is much employed in medicine.





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