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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; pscudobulbis tetragonis, folio oblongo acuto plicato margine 
crispo basi in petiolum brevem canaliculatum anguatato, pedunculis uni- 
floris psendobulbis 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-oblong, 
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 band, 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. Flowers 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. 
