Okder I. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
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12978 Leaves lanceolate spotted flat entire 
12979 Leaves somewhat radical ensiform channelled falcate. Scapes few-fl. Spur filiform very long 
12980 Stem compr. sheathing panicled. Branches quite simple spreading, Lip 3-lobed, Spur inflex. blunt emarg, 
12981 Leaves 2-lobed and very unequal at end shorter than the weak radical sheathed scape. Spur emarginate 
12982 Spur very long filiform. Spikes sheathed axillary 
12983 Leaves lane, plaited nerved. Spike dense many-flowered, Bractes small lanceolate 
12984 Stem 1-leaved, Leaves oblong lanceolate the same length as raceme, Flowers 3-cornered 
12985 Stem long 1-leaved, Leaf broad-lanceolate shorter than raceme. Flowers ^-cornered 
12986 Lvs. about 4 at the base of the stem scabrous at the extremity. Scape pentagonal. Lip concave acute 
12987 Leaves oblong csesious flat nerved. Flowers in a long dense spike 
12988 Scape 1-leaved, Leaf amplexicaul. Lip truncate emarginate 
12989 Lvs. twin ovate-lanc. Scape 3-cornered, Inner sepals reflexed discolored, Lip concave obov. acute at end 
12990 Leaves twin ovate-lanceolate. Scape 3-cornered, Lip ovate at end recurved 
12991 Somewhat bulbous, Leaves 4-ovate plaited striated wavy, Lip reflexed with two tubercles at base 
12992 Radical leaves unequal lanceolate entire acute fleshy about the same length as raceme. Lip oblong retuse 
12993 Leaves lanceolate ensiform keeled, Raceme many-flowered. Lip 3-toothed at end 
12994 Lip narr. at base somew. clawed. Spur |-bifid long, than Up with acute teeth, Pedunc, longer than ovary 
12995 Leaves ovate oblong nerved. Sepals wavy. Lip acute. Caps, cylindrical very long 
12996 Leaves oblong lanceolate flat obsoletely striated. Lip retuse 
merce, viz. ; the pompona, the let/, and the simarona. When the fruit begins to turn yellow, it is gathered and 
fermented in small heaps, in the same manner as is practised with the cocoa or chocolate pods (Theobroma) ; 
it is then spread in the sun to dry, and when about half dried, pressed flat with the hand and rubbed over with 
the oil of Palma Christi, or of the cocoa ; it is then exposed to the sun to dry, the oiling repeated, and the 
pods covered with the leaves of the Indian reed to preserve them. The fruits which are brought to Europe 
are of a dark brown color, about six inches long, and scarce an inch broad ; they are wrinkled on the outside, 
and full of a vast number of black seeds, like grains of sand, of a pleasant smell, resembling Balsam of Peru. 
The species of this genus, like many other Epidendre«e, are falsely called parasitical ; but are no more so than 
our Polypodium vulgare, which is often found growing on the trunks of old trees, especially pollards, rooted 
in the decaying bark. The Vanillae shoot out roots at every joint like the Ivy, and may be either grown on a 
piece of a rotten trunk of a tree, or planted in a pot of rotten tan mixed with rubbish, and the stem trained 
against any surface which it can root into. Like aU the tribe, these plants require very little water. 
Mr. Salisbury has the following observations upon Vanilla planifolia. " It was discovered by Father Plumier, 
in the island of St. Domingo, where it grows wild, climbing to the tops of the highest trees; and is easily 
preserved in our stoves, throwing out one or more roots at every leaf; but as it seldom flowers here, I would 
recommend the following treatment : — plant it at one end of a low bark stove, the temperature of which must 
be kept constantly hot and damp, never below sixty degrees of Fahrenheit in the night, during winter. Let 
the earth be fat loam, taken about an inch deep from the surface, in some old wood : mix this with a few 
decayed leaves and small pieces of rotten sticks, either in a tub bored full of holes, and sunk at the back corner 
of the bark pit ; or pale off a space of two square feet for it, draining the bottom a foot in depth very effec- 
tually with hollow tiles and porous stones. Select a healthy young plant to place in this earth, and as soon as 
it pushes vigorously, divide the stem, by pinching off its top, into three or four principal branches, which train 
backwards and forwards over that end of the bark pit, at two inches and a half distance from each other, on 
stout rods of a rough-barked elm nailed firmly across ; the roots which issue from the bottom of the stem 
or branches, must be suffered to penetrate into the earth, where they will swell and nourish the plants ; but if 
those beyond attempt to strike downwards, wind them gently along the elm rods, to which they will soon cling 
by small fibres, like those of Ivy. "When the principal branches have extended to fifteen or twenty feet in 
length, divide them again by pinching their tops, as you find it necessary, into about a dozen branches in all, 
which must be left to flower, guiding them first horizontally, and afterwards in every possible direction, upon 
smaller rods of rough-barked elm, stuck into the bark pit at various angles. From the twentieth of March to 
the twentieth of September, shade that end of the stove by the light foliage of a Passiflora, trained all over 
the top, but pruned so thin as to admit the rays of the sun to play on the bed underneath : I prefer this 
method to a mat, for many reasons. Let the earth be always damp bv gentle sprinklings of water, but never 
very wet, except in the great heats of summer, when I should be inclined to give the plant two or three 
drenching showers all over from a fine-nosed watering-pot, shutting up the house at night full of steam." 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
