Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.17635
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Pale umbrella orchid
Date
1838
Creator
S Watts (British) , Engraver
After
Sarah Anne Drake (1803 - 1857, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
49461
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 247mm
width (print): 150mm
width (print): 150mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of the Pale umbrella orchid Bulbophyllum longiflorum, here referred to as the Insular cirrhopetalum, Cirrhopetalum thouarsii. The plant is widely distributed, from Africa to the Indian and Pacific Islands and northern Australia. The plate shows flowers and leaves, with details of the flowers.
Plate 11 from Edwards’s botanical register…edited by John Lindley, new series v.1, (London, James Ridgway and Sons, 1838). The plate is inscribed ‘P.11’ above; and below ‘Miss Drake Delt. Pubd. by J. Ridgway, Piccadilly Feby.1 1838.’
In the associated text, the author states that: ‘This very curious plant is one of the most extensively diffused of all epiphytal Orchidaceae. I have specimens gathered in the Society Islands by Mr. Mathews, Reinwardt found it in Java, Thouars in the isles of France and Madagascar, and Mr. Cumming has lately sent it from Manilla to Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered last July.’
John Lindley (1799-1865) British botanist and horticulturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1828.
Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), British botanical artist, was a long-term associate of the Lindley family and a prolific illustrator for James Lindley.
Plate 11 from Edwards’s botanical register…edited by John Lindley, new series v.1, (London, James Ridgway and Sons, 1838). The plate is inscribed ‘P.11’ above; and below ‘Miss Drake Delt. Pubd. by J. Ridgway, Piccadilly Feby.1 1838.’
In the associated text, the author states that: ‘This very curious plant is one of the most extensively diffused of all epiphytal Orchidaceae. I have specimens gathered in the Society Islands by Mr. Mathews, Reinwardt found it in Java, Thouars in the isles of France and Madagascar, and Mr. Cumming has lately sent it from Manilla to Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered last July.’
John Lindley (1799-1865) British botanist and horticulturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1828.
Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), British botanical artist, was a long-term associate of the Lindley family and a prolific illustrator for James Lindley.
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