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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A tribe of plants, of the order Plumbagineæ. distinguished from the other tribe (Plumbageæ) by flowers with a commonly spreading, scarious, and colored calyx-border, stamens united to the petals at the base or higher, and styles distinct to the middle or the base.

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