Vochyacee
or VOCHYSIACEÆ, in botany, vochyads; an order of hypogynous exogens, alliance Sapindales; trees or shrubs with opposite branches, four-angled when young. Leaves normally opposite, the upper ones sometimes alternate, with glands or two stipules at their base; flowers generally in terminal panicles or large gaily-colored racemes; sepals four to five, unequal in size, the upper one the largest and having a spur; petals one, two, three, or five, unequal; stamens one to five generally opposite to the petals, most of them sterile, but one having a fourcelled fertile anther; style one; stigma one; ovary three-celled, each with one, two, or many ovules; capsule threeangled, three-celled, three-valved, or occasionally one-celled, one-seeded; seed usually winged. Natives of tropical America. five, s