Prescottia plantaginea orchid. Native to the West Indies and Latin America, sent from Rio de Janeiro by English botanist John Forbes in 1822. Plantain-leaved prescotia, Prescotia plantaginea. 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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