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MR. R. ALLEN ROLFE ON THE GENUS VANILLA. 465 
Vincent, Guilding! In virgin forest between Mt. St. Andrews 
and the Grand Bonhomme, at 2,000 feet alt., Smith! Trinidad, 
Hart! 
Folia 3-7 poll. longa, 3-2 poll. lata. Racemi 13-2 poll. longi. 
Bractew 3-7 lin. longs, 2-4 lin. late. Sepala et petala 21-23 
poll. longa. Labellum 2-2} poll. longum. Capsula 3 poll. 
longa, 3 poll. lata. 
This is an indigenous West Indian species which has been 
confused with Vanilla planifolia, Andr., though it is easily 
distinguished by its much larger flowers, lip without verrucose 
disc, and its much shorter fruit. Mr. Hart states that it is 
indigenous in Trinidad, and that the fruit bas little perfume, 
and Messrs. Smith remark that in St. Vincent they only 
observed it in a limited space but in virgin forest. It is 
cultivated in the Botanic Gardens of Jamaica and Trinidad, but 
there is no evidence of its fruits being of any commercial value. 
Wright’s Cuban specimen at Kew, and also at the British 
Museum, is mixed with the leafless V. barbellata, Reichb. f.ia 
fruiting specimen of each being attached to the same sheet, with 
a single ticket. 
27. Vaninta Pompona, Schiede, in Linnea, iv. (1829) p. 573; 
habitu Vanille planifolie ; foliis majoribus; bracteis majoribus 
late elliptico-oblongis ; floribus majoribus carnosiusculis viridi- 
flavis; labello subintegro, venis paullulo crassiusculis, crista 
appendicibus foliaceis retrorsis composita; capsulis lineari- 
oblongis obtuse trigonis.—Lindl., Gen. and Sp. Orch., p. 437; 
Klotzsch, in Bot. Zeit., iv. (1846) p. 566; Desv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 
sér. IIT. vi. (1846) p. 120; Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras., iii. pars tv. 
vb. 147; Rolfe, in Kew Bull. (1895) p. 176. 
V. grandiflora, Lindl., Gen. and Sp. Orch., (1840) p. 435. V. 
guianensis, Splitg. in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. II. xv. (1841) p. 279 
(partim). De Vriese in Tuinb. FI. iii. (1856) pp. 78, 81, t. 6 
(partim). Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. iii. pars iv. p. 151 
(partim). V. surinamensis, Reichb. f. in Nederl. Kruidk. Arch., 
iv. (1859) p. 321 (partim). V. lutescens, Mog. ex Dupuis, in 
Rev. Hort., sér. IV, v. (1856) p.121 fig. 24; Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr., 
ili, (1856) p. 854; Duchartre, in Journ. Soc. Imp. Hort., y. 
(1859) p. 97, t. 11; Fl. des Serres, xxi. t. 2218. 
Hab. 8. E. Mexico, Papantla and Colipa, Schiede! Valley 
of Cordova, Bourgeau, 2332! Nicaragua, Segovia, Oersted ! 
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