Warscewicz's Cattley's orchid, Cattleya warscewiczii. Sketched from a plant in Lord Londesborough'ts collection at Norbiton. First collected by Polish botanist Jozef Warszewicz in Colombia in 1848-49 and formally described by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach in 1855. As Cattleya gigas. 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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