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M. peur of Enghien obtained plants from the collection of the 
Right Hon. C. Greville in 1812, which were yd i the care of 
Dr. came the Director of the Botanic Garden at Ant . The 
grew r a 
Franee, but they very rarely flowered; once or twice in Flanders at 
the seat of Madame la Vicomtesse Vilain XIV., and at Liege; but fruit 
was never obtained." In 1819 Dr. Sommé sent two plants to M. Marchal 
for the Dutch colonies of Java, one of which the latter, by unremitting 
attention on the voyage, succeeded in saving, and gave to the Botanic 
being without doubt the one which Blume 
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829 Dr. Schiede published four species of Vanilla. which he met with 
in his travels in Mexico in ni under the names of V. sativa, V. sylvestris, 
. Pompona, and V. inodora ( Linnea, IV., pp. 573-574). V. sativa 
he stated to m the “ Baynilla mansa ” of the Mexicans, and to have 
esuleate fruit. It grew spontaneously in the districts of Papantla, 
Misantla, eem and Colipa, and was also sometimes cultivated. 
V. sylvestris was called * Baynilla eimarona," and had bisulcate fruit, 
It grew at Papantla, Nautla, and Colipa. V. Pompona was called 
* Baynilla Pompona,” and had ver large bisuleate fruit. It grew at 
not seen flowers of any of them. V. sativa and ros ha thou 
had probably hitherto been See a the name of V. planifolia, 
but as their difference in commerce was of importance he ed iven 
separate names, “ although,” ps remarks, **the transitions have not 
escaped 1 V. sativa was ev ery where esteemed as the best, and was 
alone da Bi of ia e. Only at Papantla was V. sylvestris 
gathered beside it. A kind called * Baynilla mestiza” was nothing but 
a kind intermediate between the two, even in vm as well as quality. 
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but did mut adus of being dried in a sufficient degree to admit of its 
being sent to Europe, always keeping doughy, for which reason it was 
not an article of trade. V. inodora was perfectly useless, on [oen of 
the entire want of ethereal oil. A kind known as “ Vanilla mono” 
mixed V. sativa with it; also that they geere them before they were 
perfectly ripe. The vanilla harvest comme in December and 
continued on into March, being g almost the Un employment of the 
Indians, who went out daily i into the woods where the v wild, 
or where they had iue. taking their daily gatherings to the 
purchasers, who separated them according to their different Finals and 
ualities 
os Between 1830 and 1838 Bauer and Lindley’s Z/lustrations C DRE 
daceous Plants appeared, and we find plates 10 and 11 of the Genera 
devoted to tlie strueture of flowers and fruit of Vanilla planifolia, deni 
* drawn by Mr. Bauer in 1807." This is the first evidence of the pro- 
duction of fruit in Europe, and as the drawing was made in té same 
year as Salisbury's figure viv. it is praetically certain that it was 
made from the very same t. How the flo wer became fertilised js 
the uniformly plump texture, and the fact that it is attached to the rachis, 
all show the contrary; quite apart from the fact that the vanilla o 
