24 SPICES 



CHAP. 



lobed, toothed with raised nerves, the front nerves 

 warty and buff- yellow, with a tuft of hairs about the 

 middle of the disk. The column is 1^ in. long. The 

 pod -like fleshy capsule is elongate, linear, obscurely 

 three-angled, 6 to 9 in. long and 6 or 7 lines through. 



VANILLA. 



Vanilla pompona resembles V. planifolia, except 

 that its leaves are larger, 6 to 11 in. long, l| to 4|- 

 in. broad; the flowers are larger and more fleshy, 

 the sepals and petals greenish yellow, the lip bright 

 yellow, with the central tuft of imbricating scales rather 

 than hairs, and the pod linear oblong, 6 or 7 in. long, 

 and 1 to 1 in. thick. 



