Nodding epidendrum orchid, Epidendrum nutans. Native of Jamaica, brought to England in 1793 by Admiral William Bligh. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from his own Botanical Register, J. Ridgeway, London, 1815.

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