Dark-flowered gongora orchid, Gongora atropurpurea. Trinidad and Tobago to South tropical America, sent from Trinidad by 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, 1827.

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