Tab. 7852. 



CYNOHCHIS PURPUEASOENS. 

 Native of the Mascarene Islands. 



Nat. Ord. Oechide^. — Tribe Ophryde.?:. 

 Genus Cynorchis, Thou.; {Benth. & HooTc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 628.) 



G^'so^cms purpurascens ; epiphytica, caule brevi, foliis solitariis v. nunc binia 

 et valde inEequalibus majore 1-2-pedali sessili oblongo v. oblongo- 

 lanceolato acuminato supra laete viridi multinervi, nervisparallelis subtua 

 crassis, scapo pedali valido erecto vaginis 1-2 lanceolatis recurvis instrncto, 

 floribuB racemosis v. in capitulum 6-7 poll. diam. congeatis cum paucia 

 inferioribus dissitis, bracteis pollicaribus lanceolatis erectis vaginantibaa 

 pallida viridibus, ovario fere bipollicari gracili, perianthio 1^ poll, lato roseo 

 labelli disco albido, sepalo dorsali brevi ovate obtuso galeato, lateralibua 

 multo majoribus orbionlari-ovatis patulis, petalis lineari-ianceolatis 

 ascendentibns sepalo dorsali sequilongis, labello amplo sessili subiequaliter 

 4-fido, lobis late cuneatis patulis apice crenulatis, calcare gracili ovario 

 subaequilongo leviter incurve, columna brevissima alba. 



C, pnrpurascens, Thou. Orch. lies Afric. t. 15 {Cynosorchis). Lindl. Gen.SfSp. 

 Orchid, p. 331 {non tab. nostr. 7551). Baker, Ft. Maurit. p. 337. Rolfe 

 in Orchid. Rev. vol. ix. (1901) pp. 10, 20. W. Watsoa in Gard. Ghron. 

 1900, vol. ii. p. 335 ; Weathers I.e. 1901, vol. i. p. 86, fig. 37. Garden, 

 1900, p. 375. 



C. calantboides, Krsenzl. in Bremen Abhandl. Naturwiss. Verein. vol. vii. (1882) 

 p. 260. 



Gymnadeaia pnrpurascens, A. Rich, in MSm. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. vol. iv. 

 (1828) p. 27. Bojer, Eort. Maurit. p. 311. 



The plant erroneously figured in this work as Gj/norchis 

 jpurpurascens, tab. 7551, though agreeing with Thouar's 

 meagre description of that plant, proves, now that the 

 latter is known, to be an entirely different species, which 

 must retain the name that Keichenbach gave it of 

 G. Lowiana. The true C. purpurascens, though varying 

 greatly in size, never appears to assume the very slender 

 character of C. Lowiana, from which it differs, m its 

 fully developed state, in the leaf, which is perhaps the 

 largest of any Orchideous plant, in the very many- 

 flowered inflorescence, much larger bracts, and larger, 

 broader flowers, with a slender spur. The structure ot the 

 column is very much the same in both, but the rostellum, 

 which is decurved in G. Loidana, is sub-erect in C. ]m>'- 

 Jpurascens, so far as can be judged from the specimens 

 figured. 



SiPTEMBER 1st, 1902. 



