Illustrations from Curtis's botanical magazine
1835 Epidendrum conopseum
Florida Epidendrum
The only parasitical Orchideous plant found in the United States.
It inhabits only the southern territories, sometimes growing on the trunk of the Oaks, but far more generally on that of Magnolia grandiflora.
Our flowering specimens were communicated by Messrs. Shepherds, from the rich collection of Epiphytes at the Liverpool Botanic Garden, to which it was sent from North Carolina, by Mr. Gordon, attached to branches of Magnolia grandiflora.
1839 Cymbidium triste
Lurid-flowered Cymbidium
It is a native of various countries in the South-eastern portion of the Old World, as New Caledonia (where it was first discovered by Forster during the celebrated voyage of Captain Cook), the Marianne Islands, Japan, Ceylon, and Nepal.
It was introduced from the latter country to our stoves by Dr. Wallich, and our first knowledge of it was derived from a plant which flowered at the Liverpool Botanic Garden several years ago, and we then referred it doubtfully to the Genus Vanna.
Our present figure was taken from a plant that blossomed in Mr. Horsfall’s rich collection at Everton.
Synonym: Luisia tristis
1845 Dendrobium fimbriatum var. oculatum
Fringe-lipped Dendrobium var. with sanguineous eye
A native of Nepal sent to us in 1820 by Dr. Wallich.
It first blossomed in the Liverpool Botanic Garden, but at Kew they had to wait until September 1843.
In 1882 W. Hooker wrote “Among the valuable plants which in the month of April I had the gratification of seeing at the rich Botanic Garden of Liverpool none interested me more than Dendrobium fimbriatum