Four-season orchid, Cymbidium ensifolium. Sword-shaped-leaved epidendrum, Epidendrum ensifolium. From China and Japan, introduced to the gardens of Mary Bright, the Marchioness of Rockingham, sketched at the George Hibbert herbarium, Hibbertian collection. Copperplate engraving drawn, engraved and hand-coloured by Henry Andrews from his Botanical Register, Volume 5, self-published in Knightsbridge, London, 1804.

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