Tas 4629. 
BIFRENARIA Hapwenn. 
Mr. Hadwen’s Bifrenaria. 
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEZ.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Sepala patula, libera; lateralia cum basi producta column adnata, 
vix basi obliqua. Petala sepalis duplo minora. Labellum cum pede mucronato 
column articulatum, cucullatum, trilobum, medio callosum. Colwnna brevis, 
semiteres, mutica. Anthera mutica, subcristata. Pollinia 4, per paria incum- 
bentia, caudiculis duabus distinctis materiei viscide rostelli adhzrentibus, glan- 
dula (oblonga).—LEpiphyta, pseudo-bulbosa, Maxillarize (Colacis) habitu. Lindl. 
Brrrenarta Hadwenii; foliis longis teretibus pendentibus acutis antice inferne 
precipue sulcatis, pedunculis erectis unifloris vaginatis, ovario longissimo 
tereti, sepalis oblongis acuminatis patentibus uniformibus, labello amplo 
cucullato subrepando intus pubescente, crista applanata 3-dentata. 
Brrrenarta Hadwenii. Lindl. in Past. Fl. Gard. July 1851, p. 67. 
Scuricarta Hadwenii. Hort. (Lindl.) 
Communicated by Isaac Hadwen, Esq., of Liverpool, from 
the stove of his garden, in June 1851. It has a good deal 
the habit of Mawillaria (Scuticaria) Steelii, figured at our 
Tab. 3573, and it is no wonder that horticulturists placed it in 
_ the same genus; but Dr. Lindley observes that it departs from 
Scuticaria in the pollen-masses, and he refers it to Bif enaria, 
though differing somewhat from that genus. It is a native of : 
Brazil, and appears to have been first imported by Mr. Hadwen 
from Rio Janeiro. We have received plants at Kew from the 
same country, through our valued friend Mr. Miers, of Temple 
Lodge, Hammersmith. It flowered with Mr. Hadwen in May, 
with us in September. 
Dzscr. Except that the foliage is shorter and not so flaccidly 
pendent, the general aspect of the plant is quite that of our 
Mazxillaria Steelii. The stem or caudew is short, knotty, brown, 
throwing out a few cylindrical fleshy roots, and from a sheath- 
ing swollen base bearing eaves a foot and a foot and a half long, 
terete, furrowed on the inside, acute, dark green. From similar 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1852. 
