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from The Century Dictionary.
- A subtribe of composite plants of the tribe Helianthoideæ, characterized by the diœcious chaffy heads, each with rudimentary styles or anthers. It includes three genera, two of South American shrubs, and one a tree, Petrobium (the type).
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