Curled petalled cattleya orchid, Cattleya crispa. Native of Brazil, sent from Rio de Janeiro by British army officer Captain Sir Henry Chamberlain in 1826. Handcoloured lithograph from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 4, Orr and Smith, London, 1837.

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