Yellowish miltonia orchid, Miltonia flavescens (Straw-coloured cyrtochilum, Cyrtochilum flavescens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' "The Botanical Register," London, Ridgway, 1833. Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857) drew over 1,300 plates for the botanist John Lindley, including many orchids.

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