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Mr, Morris states that the Vanilla planifolia is a native of British 
Honduras, and fine masses of it are found in the forest, hanging down 
from the trees, which, when the fruit is ripe, diff a fra pe 
ceptible at a considerable MT The insect which fertilises the 
flowers is also present, as is ux d by the number of bunches on the 
wild plants, which at present ( 1883) are still to rot on the vines and 
run to waste, though, if gathered and properly cured, a considerable 
trade might be made in them. (British Honduras, p. 81 -) 
. Vanilla v temere nd ea Bot. Rep., VIII, (1808), t. 538.—A 
tulle clitibis, nem very long somewhat flexuose succulent green stems, 
and slender flexuose or twining white aerial roots opposite to the leaves. 
eaves ponse oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, succulent, bright 
green, 4-9 in. long, 14-21 in n. broad. Racemes s 2-3 in. long, 
succulent. Brace: ig ey spirally arranged, oblong r 
upwards, Pedicels 14-2 in. long, green. Sepals an ‘a rer inear- 
oblong, subobtuse, 2 in. long, light glaucous green. Lip trumpet- 
shaped, a little shorter than the sepals and petals and of the same colour, 
united to the sides of the column to near its apex, and then convolute 
round it, apex three-lobed, mid lobe longer and retuse, margin revolute 
and denticulate, nerves carinate, and those in front densely crenulate- 
oa ee buff yellow ; disc with a tuft of retrorse hairs about the 
middle. umn clavate, 14-1} in. long, hairy on the face. Capsule 
elongate- ding; obscurely trigonous, 6-9 in. long, 6-7 lin. broad.— 
- Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 2, V. , p. 220; Lodd. Bot. Cab., VIIL, 
t. 733; Bauer Ill. Orch., Gen., t. 10, 11; Blume Vm an f. p. 197, 
t. 68, ig. 2; Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orch., p. 4385; C. Morr. in Ann. Nat.  —— 
Hist., ser. 1, HI., p. 1 ; De Friese in Belg. Hort., VE 315, 365 ; o 
Bentl. & Trim. Medic. PL, IV., t. 272 (excl. syn.) ; Flick. < 
-*harmacogr., p. 595; Gard. Chron., 1867, p. 997 ; cep T ps8; 
Bot. Mg. 6 t "nte; ; Cogn. in Mart, Fl. Bras., IIL, pt. 4 
abitat.—So DEI rn Mexico, in the Vera Cruz district, num 
Schiede ! pene n (Schott., n. 215!) ; in British Honduras, 
Guatemala Deme n. 436 61); and Costa Rica. Cultivated in the 
Mascarene Islands, Java, the West Indies, and other parts of t 
tropi 
botiadéon ^ Vanilla, L. Sp. Pr, ed. 1., ^ 952 (partim). 
Vanilla mexicana, Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8 (1761), n. 1 (partim). 
Vanilla aromatica, Sw. in Nov Act. ipsal., VI. (1799) et in 
ir ini m Journ., II., p. 208 (partim) ; Lindl, Gen. & Sp. Orch., p. 
434 (partim). 
"Vanilla Epidendrum, Mirb. Hist. PL, ed. 2, IX., p. 249 (partim). - 
 Myobroma fragrans, Salish. Parad. Lon d., t. 82. 
Vanilla viridiflora, Blume Bi jdr. »p.4 
Vanilla sativa, Schiede in Linnea, iV, p. 573; VL, p. 59; Lindl, 
Gen. & Sp. Orch., p. 437. 
^ "Vanilla sylvestris, Schiede in Linnea, VL, p. 573; VI, p. 59; 
Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orch., p. 437. 
Vanilla majaijensis, Blanco Fl, Fi ilip., ed. 2, p. 593. 
"This species produces the true Mexican vanilla of. commerce, which 
has been known ever since the discovery.of America by the Spaniards, 
and which was described by Clusius as long ago as 1605 under the name 
of Lobus oblongus aromaticus. Its early history is much confused, as for 
a long period three or four species were confounded together, and even 
when the present one was described it was not known as the source of 
