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 permane...
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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