Thunia alba orchid. Native to southeast Asia, imported from Silhet by plant collectors for the Duke of Devonshire. White-flowered phajus, Phajus albus. Handcoloured lithograph from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 5, Orr and Smith, London, 1838.

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