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Imported from Rio Janeiro by Messrs Loddiges. It has 

 the habit of Pleurothallis ruscifolia, but is a much larger 

 plant. The flowers are pale straw-colour. 



63. BIFRENARIA inodora. 



B. inodora; pseudobulbis tetragonis, folio oblongo acuto plicato margine 

 crispo basi in petiolum brevem canaliculatum angustato, pedunculis uni- 

 floris pseudobulbis brevioribus, sepalis oblongis obtusis cornu elongato 

 clavato, petalis subconformibus paulo undulatis, labelli trilobi cucullati 

 lobis rotundatis undulatis subdentatis intermedio piloso, callo disci cu- 

 neato carnoso emarginato. 



" This plant was imported from Rio in 1839, and added 

 to Sir Charles Lemon's collection at Carclew, where it flowered 

 in April, 1843. In habit and general appearance it ap- 

 proaches so near to Maxillaria tetragona, as to have been 

 mistaken for it, but on flowering it proved to be widely dif- 

 ferent from that species, and much handsomer, although the 

 flowers are destitute of that peculiar fragrance which M. te- 

 tragona is said to possess. It requires similar treatment, and 

 flourishes in a warm, moist stove, potted in a mixture of rotten 

 wood and other decayed vegetable substances. 



"Pseudo-bulbs of a dull brownish green, ovate-ohlong, 

 four-angled, a good deal hollowed between them, upwards of 

 three inches long, and nearly the same in circumference at 

 the base, from which they taper to the point, where there is a 

 black coloured hand, indicating the joint at which the leaf is 

 united to the pseudo-bulb. Leaves solitary, oblong-lanceolate 

 acute, on short foot- stalks, spreading and recurved, measuring 

 when full grown a foot in length, and four inches across. 

 They are thin and rigid, of a pale green below, rich deep green 

 above, slightly undulated, or crimped, at the margin, with a 

 prominent vein on either side of the midrib. Fiowers large 

 and spreading, of a brownish green, with a hairy, red label- 

 lum. Scape radical, very short, sacrcely half the length of 

 the pseudo-bulb, round and of a pale green, bearing two and 

 sometimes three flowers. Pedicels about two inches long, 

 slightly curved, and similar in size and colour to the scape, 

 with a brown -coloured acuminate bract at the base of each. 

 Sepals of a dull green, slightly tinged with red. The two 

 lateral ones are roundish oblong, a little recurved at the point, 

 upwards of two inches long, and an inch wide, and ending at 

 the base in a kind of spur, half the length of the pedicel. 



