Sudamerlycaste barringtoniae orchid. Native to Jamaica, flowered in Mrs Jane Barrington's garden at Mongewell in 1791. Drawn from a specimen in John Shepherd's Liverpool Botanic Garden in 1824. Large-leaved dendrobium, Dendrobium barringtoniae, Epidendrum barringtoniae. 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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