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EPIDENDRUM pyriforme. 
 Pear-shaped Epidendrum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEÆ. (Oncuips, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 42.) 
EPIDENDRUM.—L. 
Sect. ENcvcL1iUM. Div. ; lip 3-parted, with the middle lobe rounded. 
E. pyriforme (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1847. sub. t. 10.) ; (Encyclium : labello 
tripartito : lobo medio rotundato) pseudobulbis obpyriformibus aggre- 
gatis diphyllis, foliis coriaceis lanceolatis acutis scapo subbifloro lon- 
gioribus, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis acutis, labell lobis lateralibus 
obtusis integerrimis intermedio subrotundo glabro picto callis 2 maximis 
apice subliberis in unguem. 
This very pretty little species was imported from Cuba 
by Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered in January last. 
The leaves are unusually thick and fleshy, about four inches 
long, on little pseudo-bulbs, which look like inverted pears. 
Notwithstanding its diminutive stature, the flowers are fully 
21 inches in diameter, with reddish yellow sepals and petals, 
and a pale straw-coloured lip veined with crimson. 
We do not find it in any of our dried collections ; it does 
not occur among the Cuba plants gathered by Mr. Linden, 
and we are ignorant of the history of its discovery. 
Fig. 1. represents its lip spread open, to shew the form 
of the calli, which scarcely adhere to the lip until they reach 
the re-entering angles at its sides. 
