Cypripedium Macropterum [Lady’s Slipper Orchid]

Description

original-colour lithograph.
Botanical print from “Orchid album comprising colored figures and descriptions of new, rare
and beautiful orchidaceous plants”; plate 391.
Benjamin Samuel Williams (1822 – 1890) was an English orchidologist in London, known mainly
for his horticultural notes on orchids in publications, such as  The Orchid Grower’s Manual (London 1871), Select Orchidaceous Plants (London 1862 onwards) and The Orchid Album (London 1882-97). Cypripedium (Greek for the shoe of Venus) is a genus of 58 species and nothospecies of hardy, lady’s slipper orchids widespread across much of the Northern Hemisphere including most of Europe, Russia, China, Central Asia and the Americas.