Vouapa
(the Guiana name). ORD. Leguminosae. A small genus (about three species) of stove, evergreen trees, natives of Guiana, now included, by Bentham and Hooker, under Macrolobium. Flowers racemose; calyx four-cleft, with two opposite, stipitate bracteoles at the base; petal one, flat; stamens three. Leaves unijugate. Only one species has been introduced. It thrives in a compost of sandy loam and a little peat. Propagation may be effected by ripened cuttings, inserted in sand, under a glass, in heat. V. bifolia (two-leaved). fl. violet; calyx lobes spreading; stamens nearly equalling the corolla; bracts elevated-uninerved. May. l., leaflets sessile, ovate, acuminate, oblique. h. 10ft. 1823. The proper name of this plant is now Macrolobium bifolium.