Krameria
(named after John George Henry and William Henry Kramer, father and son, Austrian botanists). ORD. Polygaleae. A genus comprising twelve species of diffuse, stove, glabrous trees or shrubs, natives of the warmer parts of America. Flowers axillary, or on the tops of the branchlets, generally solitary or disposed in spike-formed racemes. Leaves alternate, coriaceous. Only two species have been introduced. K. pauciflora thrives in a compost of sandy loam and fibry peat. Cuttings will root in sand, if placed under a hand-glass, in heat. The same treatment will answer for the other species. K. pauciflora (few-flowered). fl. red; pedicels few, longer than the leaves, bearing two bracts on the middle of each. l. oblong-linear, villous. h. 4ft. Mexico, 1824.
K. triandra (three-stamened). fl. shining scarlet. Summer. l. alternate, irregularly scattered or crowded, sessile, obovate, apiculate, entire, clothed with adpressed silvery hairs. Peru. Low shrub. This plant furnishes the Rhatany root of the British Pharmacopoeia; the essential constituent of rhatany is a form of tannic acid. (B. M. Pl. 30.)