t3t BORTUS JAMAICENST1. tr.yrwy-tr.Kt> 



afterwards laH in tne sun t% drv : when a'wit half dry the po 1- ar? fl >ttened with th 

 band, in i nibbed over tvith oil of palmn ckristi (or of the cocoa) ; men * x posed oive 

 ci >re to the sun, rubbed a second ti ne with oil, aid put in small bun lies, covered witn 

 Indian haves to preserve them In some parts they are gathered and bung up by lue 

 e 1 in some -hc'dv place to drv, an I, while they are drving, press them every now and 

 then h.Ptween tue finders trentiv to flatten them ; then the oil i- rtibhed on, to nreveni 

 t.i in from dr. ing too fast and bursting open ; which is repeated tiil they are fit to oa 

 rolled up in leaves or paper In rther parts, after gathering, they scald them in tne 

 iwllo.ving liquor ; a brine is made of salt and water strung enough to hear an egg ; to ilus i* 

 added ifburiii nart of chamber ive, ami a --n.all quantity of quick -I me ; the e are ho li J 

 togethei Tii i If a i i) >iir. Hie -vanillas are put into this liquor, until tliey a>e i borough, 

 lv scalde I then taken nut .and dried in the shade. When fit lor marki t, they are put 

 up from fiity to o ie iut) Ired an fifty in little bax*. Tae Spaniar Is are i. ry attentive 

 to tae maniiiiir an, I cultivating their vanilla groun Is, moulding tue plants up as thejl 

 on w, ii' .1 ti\ loJes Tor them to run on. The vanilla yields a ^rcal quantity ol oil and 

 Volatile oa-t. Long, p. 715. 



See Gpffn-W'TH :. 

 VEL\tT-BlK See Vlkvaim. 



\TI.VFT LEAF. C1SSAMPF.LOS. 



Cl. 5, OR 12 Di eeta mivdrtphia. Nat. or. Surmentncrae. 



Civ. Ciiw. \o male calyx, unless tiie corolla be called so ; corolla fonr-orate 

 petals, Hat, expanded: nectary the membranaceous disk.of the flower, wheel- 

 shaped; stamens four vers small coalesceni filaments, anther-, broad, flat; the 

 femaie calyx none except, the bracte ; no corolla; nectarv the membranaceous 

 1. reral i dge id ihe germ oh. t d outwar Is ; tue pistil ha^ a roundish germ, three 

 styies, tli ie stigmas, erect acute ; the pericarp a glonular one-celled berry 5 

 se solitary, wrinkled, somewhat compressed. Two species uavc been found 

 it. Jamaica 



1. PFRHRA. 



CJeinathbacciiertt, glabra ttvllcsa, rotunda ctuinhit'cato f, f'n Sloane, 

 I, p '.'00. Scandms. fotiis peliatis, orhiculatorcordatis villosis j 

 Jlcr<bus nui cut, nis lucemosis, JentiRinis spuatis, spiw JoUoiutis.* 

 Browne, p 3 7 



L**avi peltate, cordate, emarginate, and entire. 



P'em climbing and twining from ten ro fifteen feet in height, lar, round, striate.!, 



*m oth or Uks ite. Leaves sub pe tate, coroate-roundisb, i imeni >se ; petioles- round, 



r Hex, of a middling length; raceme-, compound, axillary lioecuus. Ma.es >u >- 



divided, ma j flowered^ flowers numerous, heaped, duski y low, minute^ calyx 



f nir-lei red, it fl -t- i: ucenlate., tbtuse, con< bvp, xprea ling, i oloured ; no corolla ; nee* 



d sk of tn.e flower, smajier than the calvx, eiKi ... ittle coi cave, coloured ; fi- 



''. v( ry short, in tiie-midd.e of th>* nectar ; an her r mndish, capitate, the 



Jur-paited tbut not four audit. O, UK itii.iaUtCapoiiiuitt.rou8, Female racemes 



VON 



