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SPICES 
CHAP. 
lobed, toothed with raised nerves, the front nerves 
warty and buff-yellow, with a tuft of hairs about the 
middle of the disk. The column is in. long. The 
pod -like fleshy capsule is elongate, linear, obscurely 
three-angled, 6 to 9 in. long and 6 or 7 lines through. 
Vanilla. 
Vanilla pompona resembles V. planifolia, except 
that its leaves are larger, 6 to 11 in. long, 1^ to 41- 
in. broad ; the flowers are larger and more fleshy, 
the sepals and petals greenish yellow, the lip bright 
yellow, with the central tuft of imbricating scales rather 
than hairs, and the pod linear oblong, 6 or 7 in. long, 
and 1 to 1^ in. thick. 
