Voyria
(Voyra is the Guiana name of one of the species). SYNS. Humboldtia (of Necker), Leiphaimos, Lita, Vohiria. ORD. Gentianeae. A genus comprising about sixteen species of dwarf, leafless, stove herbs, found growing on putrid wood and leaves in tropical America and (one species) Africa. Flowers white, yellow, orange, or rarely blue or pink, solitary or few in a cymose cluster; calyx tubular or campanulate, four or five-toothed or lobed; corolla salver-shaped, with an elongated tube and four or five twisted, spreading lobes; stamens four or five, included; filaments filiform or very short. Scales minute, opposite or the lower ones rarely alternate. The species are probably not now in cultivation.