Lelia fawa is a remarkably distinct evergreen species, with ovate bulb-like 
stems a few inches in height, bearing stout leathery dark green leaves, and from 
the apex of the bulbs, after they have become matured, an erect flower scape 
terminating in a cylindraceous raceme of eight or ten flowers. The colour of 
the blossoms is a clear yellow, the sepals and petals being linear-oblong, obtuse, 
and the lip oblong, with the side lobes plane folded up over the column, and the 
front portion crispy, recurved, the disk bearing a crest of four elevated veins divergent 
at the tips. This rare species blooms during the months of March, April and May, 
it lasts three weeks in beauty, and is a native of Brazil. 
We find this plant succeeds in the Cattleya house, and is best grown in small 
baskets or pans amongst good fibrous peat and sphagnum moss, and provided with 
good drainage. The plants must be suspended near the glass, as they require all 
the light which it is possible to give them, and indeed, very little shade is requisite 
even in the summer. They begin to grow after the flowering season is over, and 
this is the proper time for repotting them. The plants strongly object to being 
disturbed if doing well, but the soil should be renewed when found to be 
in a decayed condition, indeed, bad or soddened soil should never be allowed to 
remain about the roots. The plants, moreover, dislike to be cut, though this is 
sometimes necessary when and where the bulbs are decaying. They do not require 
too much water at any time, but must be kept moderately moist during the 
growing season, and, in fact, the bulbs must never be allowed to shrivel, but 
sufficient water must be supplied to keep them in a plump condition. Insects 
must be kept under; the white scale will sometimes attack the plants, and, unless 
promptly destroyed, will be found very detrimental to their growth. 
