OcroBER, 1912.] THE ORCHID: REVIEW. : 297 
LISTROSTACHYS CAUDATA. 
THE annexed figure represents a plant of the remarkable Listrostachys 
caudata which has just flowered at Kew. The species is a native of West 
Tropical Africa, and was originally described by Lindley in 1836, under the 
mame of Angrzecum caudatum (Bot. Reg., t. 1844), the author describing it 
Fig. 36. LisTROSTACHYS CAUDATA. 
as a most remarkable new species imported from Sierra Leone by Messrs. 
Loddiges, of Hackney, in whose establishment it had flowered in the 
autumn previous. It had been grown on a block of wood in their stove for 
epiphytes. Lindley pointed out the unusually elongated spur, measuring 
