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Leaves and fruit of a kind of Mexican vanilla. Drawing by Thomas Malie, 1730.
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Leaves and fruit of a kind of Mexican vanilla. Drawing by Thomas Malie, 1730.

Thomas Malie

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Lettering: Vanilliæ species maxima. Haec est volubilis siliquosa mexicana, foliis plantaginis, Raii, Hernand. Tlilxochilt, flos niger & aracus <?> aromaticus & a plumies <?>. Vanilla flore viridi & albo fructu nigriscente vocata. Mexico, A.D. 1730.

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