OcTOBER, 1912.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 305 
LISTROSTACHYS FORCIPATA. 
THE genus Listrostachys is remarkably polymorphic, and the species here 
figured. is so different from L. caudata, figured on page 297, that one might 
wonder what could be the connection between them. In both, however, 
the pollinia are attached by separate stipites to a single basal gland, forming 
LISTROSTACHYS FORCIPATA. 
Fig, 37. 
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a distinguishing character from Angrecum, with its single stipes. The two 
species, though so widely different in appearance, are united by a chain of 
intermediate forms, showing the greatest diversity both in habit and floral 
structure. Listrostachys forcipata was described by Krianzlin in 1894 
(Engl. Jahrb., xix. p. 254), from dried specimens collected by Preuss in the 
