Liparis nervosa orchid. Native to the tropics of Asia, Africa and America. Specimen sent from Nepal by botanist and missionary Dr William Carey to John Shepherd at the Liverpool Botanic Garden. Biturbercled cymbidium, Cymbidium bituberculatum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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