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[Named by Linnæus after Wm. Turner, Prebendary of York, who published a New Herbal in 1561, and died in 1568.] Bot .: The typical genus of Turneracem (q. v.). Herbs or undershrubs, with more or le deeply divided leaves, each with two glands at the base. Flowers generally single and axillary, rarely racemose and terminal: calyx five-parted, colored; petals and stamens five; capsule one-celled, with three parietal placentæ, bursting into three pieces. From the West Indies and South America. The herbage of some species is aromatic. Turner a opifera is astringent, and is given in Brazil against dyspepsia. T. ulmifolia is considered tonic and expectorant. T.aphrodisiac a furnishes the Damiana of the United States pharmacopeia. It is a la .