Papilionanthe teres orchid. Native to southeast Asia, Yunnan to the Himalayas, discovered in Sylhet (Bangladesh) by botanist Nathaniel Wallich, superintendent of Calcutta Botanic Garden. Taper-leaved vanda, Vanda teres. Handcoloured lithograph from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 5, Orr and Smith, London, 1838.

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