Leonia

(1é-0’ni-i), n. [NL. (Ruiz and Pavon, 1799), named after D. Francisco Leon, who promoted the publication of Ruiz and Payon’s ‘Flora Peruviana et Chi lens is.”] A genus of South American trees, belonging to the order Violariew and tribe Alsodeiew. It is distinguished from Also dei a, the type of the tribe, by having the five petals partly connected, the connective of the stamens not produced, and an indehiscent fruit. There are two species, natives of Brazil and Peru. One, ZL. glycycarpa, produces afruit that is eaten by the Peruvians, who call the tree the achoco. This genus was formerly placed in the order Myrsineee (Myrsinacece), and later made by De Candolle to constitute an order (Leoniacee) by itself.