Cushion-lipped oncidium orchid, Oncidium divaricatum. Native of Brazil, sent to the London Horticultural Society by A. J. Heatherly, sold by London nurseryman George Loddiges. Handcoloured engraving by Frederick William Smith from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 3, Orr, London, 1837.

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