Epidendrum aurantiacum Maxim Gauci after Augusta Innes Withers
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Epidendrum aurantiacum
Botanical illustration of Cattleya aurantiaca here styled Epidendrum aurantiacum, also known as the orange Cattleya orchid. Showing a specimen of five thick stems, jointed and covered with papery membrane. Two glossy oblong leaves issue from the top of the stem around a single raceme, protected by a spathe and bearing a cluster of small orange flowers with open petals. Three stems shown to have finished flowering with one bearing a seed head and two shrivelled. Detail of the petals and lip to the lower-right hand corner as viewed.
Inscribed 'Pl.12, Mrs. Withers, delt. EPIDENDRUM AURANTIACUM. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, Septr. 1st, 1838. Printed by P. Gauci, 9 North Crescent, Bedford Sqe.'
Pate 12 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-21561
- ©The Royal Society
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