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alternate imparipinnate leaves, which once more demonstrates the 
close relations between that order and Leguminose. V. americana 
inhabits Guiana and North Brazil. 
Vouacapoua americana, 
Fie. 60. 
Habit (4). 
The flowers of Melanoxylon' come very near those of Paeppigia. 
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 gyneceum is central 
or subcentral, and the ovary is borne on a long thick foot;’ it con- 
tains numerous ovules, and is surmounted by a style with a concave 
truncate apex, edged by stigmatic papille. The fruit has a large 
1 Scuorr, ap. SpRenG., Syst., Cur. Post., 2 It has been described as sessile, but its 
406.—Ennt., Gen., n. 6761.—B. H., Gen., 563, elongated flattened base is solid, and must hence 
un. 801.—Perittium Voe., in Linnea, xi. 408. be regarded as a foot. ‘ 
