170 
which shows both the characteristic growth and fruits of the plant, the- 
flowers not being represented. e original of this figure was one of 
a series of 1200 executed at great cost in "Mexico, by order of the King: 
of Spain, during the previous century. Hernandez only mentions its. 
use as a drug and gives its native name as “ Tlilxochitl.” 
__ Piso in his Wantissa Aromatica, published in 1658, appears to have- 
first put the name Vaynilla on reco: rd, and also its use as an ingredient 
in the manufacture of chocolate (pp. 200, 201). He describes it as the- 
fragrant siliqua or pod of the Araco aromatico of Hernandez, and that 
it was called Vaynilla by the Spaniards, who added it to chocolate, not 
only on account of its fragrance but because of its cpm virtues. 
The name is the diminutive of the Spanish vaina, a pod or : 
In 1675 cae figured the ie and seeds, the latter as seen preter the 
1681, he observed: —“ There grow: én this coast peace: in great 
quantity, with which Chocolate i is nel k M 38). At a place 
called Cai Dampier cases —‘ We found a 
a great quantity s Vinello’s drying i in 
the su inello i isa a “Ths Oe Cod full of black seeds ; it is 4 
“Yon the bigness of a Tol and 
pe ic! RA Foaming it: so that our Pre. at first. have 
often thrown them away when they took any, wondering why the 
Saians shear DR up Tobacco. stems. This Cod grows on a small 
. Vine, which climbs about and supports itself by the neighbouring 
irees; it first bears a yellow Flower, from whence the Cod attorwardp 
woceeds. It is first green, but when ripe it turns yellow; then the 
Todas (whose manufacture it is, and who sell it cheap to D 
jar rds) gather it, and By itin the sun, which makes it soft; then it 
changes to a Chestnut co olour. .Then they frequently press it between 
their T which makes it. flat If the Indians do anything to 
them beside, I know not, but I have seen the ee sleek them 
with. Oyl” (L; 234). .He further remarks that the Vines grow 
plentifully at Boca-toro, where he had gathered and fried to cure them. 
— but without success, and that he had never e with a Spaniard um 
‘could tell him, which led him to think that the Indians had som 
secret. “Could we have learnt the art of it, el of us would qu 
gone to en toro yearly, at the dry season and cured them, and 
freighted o vessel. . We there sois have had Turtle enough for 
a aac’ of — i They are commonly so old for 
8: pence a Cod am ong the Spaniards in the West Indies, and are sold 
by the pisen Y ios iin are much used among Chocolate to perfume: — 
i£. Some will use them among Tobacco , for it gives it a delicate ——— 
Scent. I never Ted of aiy Vinello's but here in this Country 4 gp 
@aibooca and at Bocca-toro”’ (I., p. 235). 
» The preceding accounts all clearly refer to the true Mexican - Vanilla 
* V. : planifolia), but in 1796 both Plukenet and Sloane introduce con- 
x records. : The former includes the above under his 
& jw in arbori Jamaicensis innascens” — Asin 
| 88L the true plant (t.320, fig. 4). - , 
While reta ne Clusiur ariginàl aria eising’ the above references, 
ds diis as growing Peace its in the "woods of Jamaica about 
"m cm cam gon ad 
