Shellflower or dwarf cardamom, Alpinia nutans. Alpinie a fleurs pendantes. Handcoloured steel engraving by Teillard after an illustration by Louis Joseph Edouard Maubert from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Universal Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.

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