ORCHID ACEAE. llj 



POQONIA Juss. 



Pogonia paludosa Reichb. f. Xenia Orchid. II. 92. 



Para River in swamps : Kappler 1492 ex Reichb. f. Linnaea XXII 



p. 816 where the plant is named : Cleistes paludosa Reichb. f. 

 French Guyana. 



Pogonia surinamensis Lindl. in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. II. 674. 



Para River, near Onoribo : Splitgerber 653 (fl. March) ex Reichb. f. 



Ned. Kruidk. Archief IV. p. 322. 

 Guyana, Trinidad, Porto Rico. 



VANILLA Juss. 



Vanilla inodora Schiede in Linnaea IV. p. 574. 



Lower Surinam River, near plant. Jagtlust : Splitgerber 409 ex Reichb. 

 f. Ned. Kruidk. Arch. IV. p. 321, named erroneously : Vanilla suri- 

 namensis Splitg. 



Surinam: Splitgerber H. L. B. 905, 88 — 84 named Vanilla gujanen sis 

 Splitg. Ann. des Sc. nat. ser. II. T. XV. p. 279; Hostmann 71 e.\. 

 Rolfe in Journ. Linn. See. (Botany) vol XXXII. p. 450. 



Mexico, West-Indian Islands, British Guyana. 



Vanilla acuta Rolfe 1 c. 453. 



Surinam : Kappler ex Rolfe 1. c, 

 British Guyana. (?). 



Vanilla Wrightii Reichb. f. in Flora XL VIII p. 273. 

 Surinam : Hostmann 33 ex Rolfe 1. c. 454. 

 West-Indian Islands, British Guyana. 



Vanilla palmarum Lindl. Gen. et Spec. Orch. p. 436. 



Upper Surinam River, near Blauwe Berg : Splitgerber 925 H. L. B. 



905, 88—85 (fl. May). 

 Para district: Wullschlagel 1597 ex Cogn. 1. c. 154. 

 Tropical Brazil. 



Vanilla Hostmanni Rolfe 1. c. 462. 



Upper Litanie River, near Mount Knopaiamoi : Versteeg 378 (fl. Nov.) 

 As Rolfe's description in very short, I am not quite certain about 



this species. 

 Surinam : Hostmann 306 ex Rolfe 1. c. 462. 



Vanilla planifolia Andrews Botan. Reposit. VIII t. 538. 

 Surinam: Wullschlagel 1132 ex Cogn. 1. c. 174. 

 Vernacular name: »Banilla" or »Banirie." 

 Cultivated in all tropical countries. 



