Voandzeia
(Voandzou is said to be the name of the plant in Madagascar). SYN. Cryptolobus. ORD. Leguminosae. A monotypic genus. The species is a shortly-creeping, stove herb. Its flower-stalks, like those of Arachis hypogaea, bend down after flowering, and increase in length, so that the young pods are pushed into the earth, beneath which they ripen. For culture, see Arachis.
V. subterranea (underground). Bombarra Ground Nut; Under-ground Bean. fl. pale yellow, partly unisexual, partly perfect; two upper calyx teeth or lobes connate; standard orbicular; peduncles short, axillary, few-flowered. July. fr., pods irregularly sub-globose, two-valved. l. long-petiolate, pinnately trifoliolate, stipellate. h. 3in. Tropics, 1823.