Watery dendrobium, Dendrobium aqueum. Native to the south of India. From a plant that flowered at George Loddiges' nursery, imported from Bombay. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after a botanical illustration by Sarah Drake from Edwards’ Botanical Register, continued by John Lindley, published by James Ridgway, London, 1843.

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