Laos: ‘Orchids from Siamese Central Laos’, painted by French expeditioner Louis Delaporte in 1867.

The purple-flowered orchids (left of centre) are ‘Vanda teres’; the white and yellow bunch is ‘Dendrobium farmeris’; the pink flowers are ‘Dendrobium pierardii’; and the blue flower is a climbing liana, ‘Thunbergia grandiflora’.

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