Large-fruited catasetum orchid, monkey goblet or monk's head orchid, Catasetum macrocarpum. Tridendate catasetum, Catasetum tridentatum. Sent from the island of Trinidad by botanist Eduard Freiherr von Schack, Baron de Schack. 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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