Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.21569
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‘Epidendrum aloifolium’
Date
1840
Creator
Creator - Organisation
J Ridgway & Sons, Publisher
After
Augusta Innes Withers (1792 - 1877, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
26846
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 580mm
width (print): 430mm
width (print): 430mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical illustration of Cymbidium aloifolium here styled Epidendrum aloifolium or the Aloe-leaved Epidendrum orchid. A single specimen showing rhizomes fixed to the branch by a tangle of fleshy roots, stems with papery membranes bear a single leaf which hang down and a single pendulous scape bearing a handful of flowers. The petals and sepals are blade like in form and a greenish yellow colour with a three lobed lip in white with deep yellow centre.
Inscribed ‘Pl.25, Mrs Withers delt. EPIDENDRUM ALOIFOLIUM. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, Septr. 1840.’
Plate 25 fromThe 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.
Inscribed ‘Pl.25, Mrs Withers delt. EPIDENDRUM ALOIFOLIUM. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, Septr. 1840.’
Plate 25 fromThe 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.