﻿PLATE DXXXVIII. 

 VANILLA PLANIFOLIA. 



Flat-leaved Vanilla. 



CLASS XX. ORDER I. 



G YNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointals. Two Chives. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 

 Corolla pentapetala. Labellum basi sub-cu- 

 cullatum, ecalcaratum. Anthera opercu- 

 laris, decidua. Capsula siliquaeformis, car- 



ssoM of five petals. Lip of the nectary 

 nearly cowl-shaped, and without any spur. 

 Anthers covered, at last falling off. Fruit 

 a long fleshy pod. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 Vanilla foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis ob- j| Vanilla with oval-lanced, oblique pointed 

 leaves, which are faintly streaked, and 

 lanceolatis, incurvis, obtusis. shining j and the petals of the blossom 



somewhat lance-shaped, blunt, and curved 



breviori corallino, of Plumier's unpublished drawings. The botanical 

 s. It was published by Plumier in the year 1/03, as a third species ot Va- 

 by a copy of his original if n of A. B. Lambert, esq. 



r any of his editors. In the Paradi.u- r^nJinen^ it lus been mistaken 

 tor Piumier s hrst species, the Epidendrum Vanilla of ! and W >IA- 



5?*!^ °! r wmch we have three original figures : Catesby's, in his History of C:ir., ; ii a, vol. iii. tab. 7- ; 

 rawing published by Burman ; all of them totally unlike it. No 

 two plants can be more specifically distinct, and we have seldom seen two species of one genus so dif- 

 ferent in the blossoms. r 



Vfoffla planifbliaii an exceedingly ornamental and as yet a scarce species, and runs to many feet in 



mgoot simple tendrils from the axils of the leaves. The finest specimen in England, and the 



only one that has blossomed, is in the , ,, Right Hon. Charles Greville, at Pad- 



dington, from which our drawing was taken. We are informed that it is a native of the West Indies, 



and was introduced to this country by the Marquis of Blandford 



