TROPICAL AMERICAN ORCHIDS 
Vanilla fragrans (Salisb.) Ames comb. nov. 
Myrobroma fragrans Salisb. Farad. Lond. (1807) t. 82. 
Vanilla planifolia Andrews Bot. Repos. 8 (1808) t. 538. 
R. A. Rolfe, in his revision of the genus Vanilla (in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. 32 (1896) 440), directed attention to the 
fact that the specimens figured by Salisbury in 1807 and by 
Andrews in 1808 were taken from the same plant. It has 
been customary to use, for the vanilla of commerce, the name 
proposed by Andrews, but priority of publication belongs to 
Salisbury, and the specific name fragrans should be adopted. 
