436 ARETHUSE.E. 
arger flowers, much narrower and longer sepals and petals, and the absence 
of tubercles from the tip of the labellum at once distinguish it. 
Whether or not it is one of the kindsseen in Cayenne by Aublet, it is not 
possible for me to determine. This author says there are three kinds in 
that country, one of which agrees with Plumier's figure, and is therefore 
V. aromatica ; another (/a petite Vanille) has the pods only 3 inches long, 
by an inch and a half in diameter, and must be a very different species; 
the third or grosse Vanille is not described. See this author's account of 
the culture &c. of the Vanilla in his Plantes de la Guiane Francaise, vol. 2. 
p. 77. appendix. 
6. Vanitta bicolor. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838. misc. no. 58. 
V. foliis ovato-oblongis subsessilibus acutis striatis margine rubescentibus, 
sepalis lineari - lanceolatis acutis patentibus dorso rotundatis, petalis 
conformibus carinatis, labello membranaceo semilibero convoluto apicu- 
lato undulato : venis ramentaceis in medio dense? stuposis, columná 
barbata, clinandrii auriculis crenulatis. 
Hab. in Demerara, Schomburgk. (v. v. c. in herb. Loddiges.) 
Very fragrant. The flowers are: pale, three inches long, with dull red 
sepals and petals, and a cream coloured lip. 
7. VANILLA Palmarum. 
V. foliis ovatis subcordatis brevi-petiolatis succulentis, floribus geminis, 
sepalis petalisque angustis oblongis erectis planis, labello membranaceo 
ape . +. , ovario calyculato. 
Epidendrum Palmarum. Salzmann. pl. exsicc. braz. 
Epidendrum Vanilla. Flora fluminensis c. ic. 
Hab. in Bahia in caudicibus palmarum, Salzmann. (hab. s. sp.) 
I have endeavoured in vain to ascertain the structure and form of the 
lip in three specimens of this plant, which I have had the opportunity of 
examining. It is however from all the other described species clearly 
different in its ovate subcordate leaves, and in the calyculus, which although 
often present in others in an obscure degree is not, that I am aware of, 
ever so large. 
8. VANILLA aphylla. Blume Bijdr. 499. Rumphia, 1. 198. t. 68. 
V. aphylla, pedunculis subtrifloris, labelli limbo undulato obtuso medio 
barbato, anther4 biloba, fructu cylindraceo (insipido ?) 
Hab. in alluvialibus Jave regionibus, inter frutices et ad margines sylva- 
rum ; etiam in insulà Nusa Kambangan in virgultis prope litus, Blume ; 
in Indie peninsula Wight. (hab. s. sp. cel. Wight.) 
My specimens of this plant from Dr. Wight agree with the figure and de- 
scription of Blume so far as I can discern, from their crushed state, except 
in the number of flowers, which are more than 5 instead of 3 ; the limb of 
the lip also appeared to me acute in the only flower I have been able to 
dissect. According to Blume the flowers which are green, with a violet 
labellum, aie extremely sweetscented. 
