Brassia verrucosa Maxim Gauci after Augusta Innes Withers
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Brassia verrucosa
Botanical illustration of Brassia verrucosa or the warty-lipped Brassia orchid. Depicting a single specimen with a cluster of pseudo-bulbs bearing a pair of glossy leaves. Two scapes issue from the base of the bulbs and have a raceme crowded with several flowers. Petals and sepals are lanceolate and pale green with dark brown flecks at the base with a heart shaped lip, white in colour also with speckles.
Inscribed 'Pl.22, Mrs Withers delt. BRASSIA VERRUCOSA M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, Septr. 1840. Printed by P. Gauci.'
Plate 22 from The Orchidaceae of Mexico & Guatemala by James Bateman (London, 1843).
James Bateman (1811-1897), British horticulturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1838.
- Image reference: RS-21566
- ©The Royal Society
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