Two-edged laelia orchid, Laelia anceps. Imported from Mexico by nurseryman George Loddiges. Handcoloured engraving after a botanical illustration by Samuel Holden from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 4, Orr and Smith, London, 1837.

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