Name for two scrophulariaceous plants of the West Indies and tropical America, Capraria biflora, also called goatweed or West Indian tea, and Scoparia dulcis, also called sweet broomweed or liquorice-weed.
1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot. (1776), App. 351.
1771. J. R. Forster, Flora Amer. Septentr., 28.
