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alternate imparipinnate leaves, which once more demonstrates the 

 close relations between that order and L/y/>,//i?iosce. V. americana 

 inhabits Guiana and North Brazil. 



Vouacapoua americana. 





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Fig. 60. 

 Habit (|). 



The flowers of Melanoxylon 1 come very near those of J^r/j/ju/ia. 

 The campanulate receptacle is still deeper, the scarcely irregular 

 pentamerous calyx and corolla are imbricated, and the ten filaments 

 have straight anthers villous at the base. The gynseceum is central 

 or subcentral, and the ovary is borne on a long thick foot;- it ecu- 

 tains numerous ovules, and is surmounted by a style with a concave 

 truncate apex, edged by stigmatic papillae. The fruit has a large 



1 Sciiott, ap. Sprkno., Si/sf., Cur. Posl ., '-' II, has been described as sessile, bul it* 



406. — Endl., Gen., n. 6761. — B. H., Gen., 563, elongated flattened base is solid, and must hence 

 n. 301. — Perittimn Vog., in Linneea, xi. 108. be regarded as a foot. 



