320 A. Cosntaux: 
2. Folia magna (ultra 8 cm. longa); sepala ultra 50 mm. longa; & 
labellum cireiter usque ad medium columnae adnatum. Hr 
a. Folia plana, basi subrotundata; sepala lineari-oblonga, 5—”7 cm. 
longa; labellum sepalis brevius. 
1’. Bracteae anguste triangulares, acutae; labellum apice retusum, 
nervis crenulato-verrucosis; capsula elongata. 
28. PV. planifoha Andr. 
2’. Bracteae triangulari-ovatae, obtusiusculae; labellum apice 
subtruncatum, nervis non verrucosis; capsula breviuscula. 
29. V. phaeantha Rchb.f. 
b. Folia leviter plicata, basi subcordata; sepala oblongo-lanceolata, 
8— 8!/, cm. longa; labellum sepalis longius. 
30. V. Pompona Schiede. 
II. Caulis aphyllus vel foliis ad bracteas abortivas reductis. 
A. Labellum indivisum. Folia ad squamas reducta. 
1. Sepala petalaque obtusa; labellum marginibus columnae breviter 
adnatum, apice emarginatum, disco cristato. 
a. Folia abortiva oblongo-lanceolata; labelli discus glaber, laevis. 
31. V. clavieulata Sw. 
b. Folia abortiva lanceolato-linearia; labelli discus barbellatus. 
32. V. barbellata Rehb.f. 
2. Sepala petalaque acuta; labellum marginibus columnae longe ad- 
natum, apice acutum, disco nudo . 33. V. Eggersü Roltfe, 
B. Labellum trilobatum. Folia nulla. 
1. Sepala petalaque acuta. . . . . 34. V. Poitaei Rehb.f. 
2. Sepala petalaque obtusa . . . . 35. V. artieulata Northrop. 
> 25. Vanilla inodora Schiede: caule crassiusculo, elongato, tere- 
tiusculo, paulo flexuoso; foliis subsessilibus, in sicco membranaceis 
mollibusque, planis, ovato-elliptieis vel ovato-lanceolatis, longiuseule 
acuminatis, basi subrotundatis, apice leviter obliquis, 12—20 em. 
longis, 4—8 cm. latis; racemis axillaribus vel subterminalibus, saepius 
3—5-floris, 3—6 em. longis; bracteis subdistichis, ovatis vel ovato- 
lanceolatis, acutis, subfoliaceis, 11/,-—3 cm. longis; sepalis petalisque 
anguste lanceolatis, obtusiuscule acuminatis, superne revolutis, 5— 
6'/, em. longis; labello sepalis satis breviore, basi columnae breviter 
adnato, limbo latissimo, leviter trilobato, lobis lateralibus obtusis, lobo 
intermedio late ovato-oblongo subacuto, disco tricostato inappendiculato; 
columna glabra, 21/, cm. longa; capsulis gracile eylindraceis, inodoris, 
12—25 cm. longis. 
Vanilla inodora Schiede! in Linnaea IV (1829) p. 474 et vI 
p. 59; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. KXXII p. 449. 
Epidendrum Vanilla (part.) L. Spee. ed. I (1753) p. 950; Sw. 
Obs. Bot. p. 324. 
Vanilla aromatica (part) Sw. in Act. Ups. VI (1799) P- 66, 
Flgr. III (1806) p. 1518; A. Rich. in Sagra, Fl. Oub. Faner. XI p.250; 
