Bulbophyllum careyanum orchid. Native of the Himalayas, Bhutan, Myanmar and Indo-China, and sent from Serampore by missionary botanist Dr. William Carey. Dr Carey's anisopetalon, Anisopetalon careyanum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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