Cyrtopodium punctatum (L.) Lindl.

Horticultural & Botanical History

‘This superb plant, of which only a small portion is represented on our plate, flowered in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in the spring of 1835.  It was sent many years ago from Brazil by Wm. Swainson, Esq. and has never till the period above mentioned shown any disposition to blossom.  Dr. Lindley obliged us by naming it, or we should probably have had difficulty in determining it; the figure referred to in Plumier being in some respects, particularly in the bulb and foliage, considerably at variance with our specimen.  It was originally discovered by Plumier, in Hispaniola, and Professor Lindley has specimens from the same country, collected by Charles Mackenzie, Esq.’  [BM t.3507/1836].

History at Camden Park

Obtained from Loddiges’ nursery, brought out from England by Captain P. P. King in late 1849.  [ML A1980-3].  This orchid does not appear anywhere else in the record but there is little doubt it was received alive.

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