This plant requires the same treatment as LZ. anceps, and will thrive either in 
a pot or in a basket with rough fibrous peat and live sphagnum moss. It should 
be grown as near the light as possible, with very little shade at any time, as, in 
their native country, they are found on trees where they receive all the light, with 
the exception of a slight shade that sometimes comes from the trees. They require 
a good deal of water during their season of growth, and, when they begin to show 
their spikes before the growth is completed they must be kept moist at the 
roots to encourage their flower spikes to become strong; after they have finished 
blooming less water will be needed, until they begin to send forth their new 
erowth and make roots. 
The plants must be kept free from insects, if a healthy and cleanly appearance 
is at all valued. The white scale will make its appearance if not looked after, 
and will spread if not speedily removed. The plants are propagated by dividing 
the tufts when in vigorous health. If it is not desired to increase their number, 
let them grow into large specimens, as we often see in the case of Lelia anceps, 
but then this has been in the country for many years. 
Orcuip VartaBiLiry.—Orchids vary very much.in their growth, even in their 
native habitats, according to the situation in which they are placed, and it is some- 
times difficult to recognise the species when grown under different circumstances. 
Their pseudobulbs are shorter when they grow in dry places where they are 
exposed to the sun, for the heat dries them up, and, under these conditions, they 
get, as it were, condensed. They require more nourishment in order to induce — 
them to make their bulbs longer, but when dry and exposed they make short stout 
bulbs. Still the species is the same and the flowers are the same as if the 
pseudobulbs were longer, but the foliage in these short-bulbed examples does not 
last so long as in the case of those found in moist shady places, and is not so 
green as on those that are found growing partially shaded—B. S. W. 
