"The Andes of Colombia and Ecuador are the richest place on earth for orchid diversity with perhaps a quarter of all known orchids found there." *

 

                                                                                             

   Comme ces anciens collecteurs, partons à la découverte des orchidées de Colombie

 
Gravure publiée dans l'ouvrage d'Albert Millican,

Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter. An account of canoe and camp life in Colombia, while collecting orchids in the northern Andes

Londres, 1891.