“The plant was purchased,” says Mr. Lreweiyn, “about three years since, from M. Drscuamrs,* 
and soon afterwards potted in very rough fibrous peat, being kept nearly dry in a cool plant-house, until 
its new buds began to swell, when it was removed to a hot and damp stove, kept exclusively for Orchidacee. 
Water was regularly given until its bulbs had acquired their full size, when it was discontinued by degrees, 
and the plant carried back to a lower temperature. This treatment has been repeated, and under it 
the entire genus seems to thrive, although, perhaps, from the vigour of some specimens of Z. anceps and 
L. autwnnalis, which I have attached to pieces of rough-barked wood (with a little peat tied round the 
roots), I should prefer that course of treatment to the more usual one of potting them.” 
The mode of treatment pursued by Mr. Lunwetyy is certainly the only one under which success can 
reasonably be expected; but there is yet a point to be gained, for while the specimen at Penllergare, how- 
ever beautiful, consisted of only a solitary flower, in a wild state three or four are borne upon a spike, in the 
manner represented in the plate. We must not omit our acknowledgments to Mrs. Lurwetyn for a most 
~ accurate drawing made upon the spot (in July, 1840), and which enabled us, with the assistance of native 
specimens in Prof. Lrnptey’s Herbarium, to prepare the accompanying figure. 
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The vignette represents a Cocoa-nut, marvellously carved by the native Indians of Guatemala, from 
whom it was procured by Mr. Skinner. 
* Vide note to Brasarolu glauca. 
