Stelis multirostris orchid. Introduced from the West Indies by nurseryman George Loddiges. Racemed pleurothallis, Pleurothallis racemiflora. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by John Lindley from William Jackson Hooker's Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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