West Indian tufted airplant, Guzmania monostachia. Epiphytic species native to South America, Central America and the West Indies, brought by coffee plantation and slaveowner James Wiles from Jamaica in 1824. Guzmania tricolor, Renealmia monostachia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1827.

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