Billbergia saundersii, bromeliad native to Brazil, named for the Swedish botanist Gustav Johan Billberg. Imported by nurseryman William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea. Handcolored botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Worthington George Smith from Henry Honywood Dombrain's Floral Magazine, New Series, Volume 3, L. Reeve, London, 1874. Lithograph printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son.

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