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SAUVAGES1EJK.South America, very general. (Yerba de St. Martin, Peruv.Adima, Yaoba Cayenne.)Stems suffruticose, often branched, procumbent or erect. Leaveslanceolate, acute at each end, serrulated. Flowers axillary, solitary,twin or tern, usually nodding. Sepals ovate-oblong, acute, ratherlonger than the corolla. Filiform petals very numerous. Very mucilaginous.It has been used in Brazil for complaints in the eves, inPeru for disorders of the bowels, and in the West Indies as a diuretic,or rather in cases of a slight inflammation of the bladder.100

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