Differently colored catasetum orchid, Catasetum discolor (Dingy monk-flower, Monachanthus discolor). Native to Demerara, Guyana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' "The Botanical Register," London, Ridgway, 1835. Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857) drew over 1,300 plates for the botanist John Lindley, including many orchids.

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