Crimson cattleya or ruby-lipped cattleya orchid, Cattleya labiata. Native to South America, sent from Brazil by English ornithologist William Swainson. Splendid-flowered catleya. 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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