Bletia florida orchid, purple flower and outline of leaf. Mr. Shepherd's bletia, Bletia sherpherdii. Native to the Caribbean, introduced from Jamaica by John Shepherd, Curator of Liverpool Botanic Garden. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by Frederick William Smith from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 2, Orr, London, 1836.

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