Description:This plate from The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala by James Bateman shows cynoches ventricosum, also known as Ventricose-Lipped Cynoches - with its' petals' "resemblance to the expanded wings of a swan."
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Only 125 copies of this book were published.
It is physically one of the largest botanical books ever published, and appears here by kind permission of The Spode Museum Trust.