John Lindley - Sertum orchidaceum
a wreath of the most beautiful orchidaceous flowers
London, James Ridgway and sons, (1838)
(Large folio (56 x 39 cm), beautiful coloured lithographed title vignette and 49 hand coloured plates lithographed by
Maxime Gauci after Miss Drake, M. E. Descourtilz, W. Griffith, Miss M.A. Mearns, Schouten and R.H. Schomburgk; 60 text lvs., index)
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frontispiece
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title page
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index to the plates
The 49 coloured plates sorted by number
[edit]- (Name in bold indicate the present accepted name)
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plate 3
Dendrobium nobile -
plate 5-1
Cattleya bicolor -
plate 5-2
Sophronitis grandiflora
Cattleya coccinea -
plate 6
Brassia macrostachya -
plate 8-A
Oberonia rufilabris -
plate 8-B
Oberonia griffithiana -
plate 8-C
Drymoda picta -
plate 9
Calanthe brevicornu -
plate 10
Schomburgkia crispa
Laelia marginata -
plate 13
Schomburgkia marginata
Laelia marginata -
plate 20
Stanhopea wardii -
plate 26
Huntleya violacea
Pescatoria violacea -
plate 31
Catasetum longifolium -
plate 32
Robiquetia compressa -
plate 35
Dendrobium anosmum -
plate 39
Oncidium pectorale -
plate 41
Catasetum saccatum -
plate 49
Disa grandiflora
Disa uniflora