272 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [SEPTEMBER, IQIE. 
CYNORCHIS PURPURASCENS. 
CYNORCGHIS PURPURASCENS is one of the finest of the Madagascar species, 
and contrasts strongly with the charming little C. compacta, whose portrait © 
is’ given on page 265. The species was introduced by M. G. Warpur about 
ten years ago, and the introducer then stated: ‘‘ Cynorchis purpurascens 
CYNORCHIS PURPURASCENS, 
Fig. 29. 
grows generally on the prostrate stems of a species of Pandanus, near the 
riverside in the high forest, at an altitude of r000 to 1200 feet. Sometimes 
it grows in tufts on Asplenium Nidus, on large trees, at a considerable 
height above the forest floor. It flowers in March and April, and seems to 
like an intermediate temperature with much shade” (O.R., ix: p,1o). The 
