In 1799 Swartz re-established aa base esa Leg AEn 
two species, V. aromatica au lata (Ni Soc. Se. 
Upsal., VI., p. 66). The former was beet on Épidesrum Vanilla, 
L., and on Plumier’s figure, which latter represents V. inodora, whose 
its are not aromatic, so that the name was evidently taken from the 
vanilla of commerce. V. claviculata is a leafless West Indian species. - 
In 1807, Salisbury figured and described a species of Vanilla under 
Plumicr, figured i in dni ailde unpublished drawings, and to be certainly | 
different from the vanilla of commerce (then supposed to be produced 
by V. aromatica). ‘The species was said to be in several collections, but 
only to have flowered in that of the Right Hon. Charles Greville. 
The following year Andrews fignred and described this came plant, 
from the Right Hon. C. Greville’s collection at Paddington, under the: 
name of Vanilla planifolia (Botanists Repository, VIIL, t. rae He 
cites the same synonym of Plumier as did Salisbury, yet most un- 
accountably states that the latter had confounded it with V. aromatica, 
wartz, the fact being just the reverse, as has been shown above. 
plant is is to have been introduced by the Marquis of Blandford. 
ors, however, mm in identifying the plant with Plumier's, 
which is = the short podded V. pheantha, Rchb. f. Although neither 
r Andrews thia the fruit, the lowers leave no doubt as 
Indies is doubtful, but the interesting point is that these are the first 
ie nba: of the flowers of the Vanilla of commeret, though the 
act was not known until afterwards. 
In 1811 Humboldt published an account of the Vanilla (Voyage de 
Humboldt et Uie gei is 3. vol. II., p. 437), in which he remarked 
that he ha pods of vanilla, of extraordinary size and very 
e in iirious "atti of Venezuela, in the province of Jaen on the 
Upper Amazon in Peru, and in various parts of Guiana, but these 
probably belonged to V. Fompona and in some part to some allied and 
imperfectly known species. As regards the vanilla of commerce he 
= some precise information, stating that the whole of it was obtained 
from the districts of Vera Cru and Oaxaca a, in Mexico. Here the 
bon abounded between the 19th and Ea parue of latitude, and the 
ead begun to propagate the plant, so as to have a larger quantity in 
a limited space. The wild vanilla or “ Baynilla cimarona" gave a 
very dry fruit, and in small quan tity, and was never planted. The 
natives of Misantla collected in the forests of Quilate the fruits of a 
rei called ** Baynilla de acguales," which was diflicult to dry because 
large size and more watery nature. The plant flowered in 
Debri and March, and the cutting commenced in March and April, 
and continued until June, This may have been the Vanilla Pompona, 
apparently produced by Vanilla planifolia, the other by V. Pompona. 
In 1825 Blume described Vanilla viridiflora ( Bijdr., p. 422) from a 
tracing this hack to the source whence Salisbury’s and also Andrews’s 
an peat derived una Nat. Hist., ser. 1, III., p. 4). It appears that 
