Zeuxina
(from zeuxis, a joining; so called from the coherence of the petals with the upper sepal). SYNS. Adenostyles, Psychechilus, Tripleura. Including Haplochilus and Monochilus (of Wallich). ORD. Orchideae. A genus comprising about seventy-six species of slender or dwarf, stove, terrestrial Orchids, inhabiting the East Indies, the Malayan Archipelago, and tropical Africa. Flowers small, in sessile spikes; upper sepal erect, concave, the lateral ones spreading; petals narrow, often cohering with the upper sepal in a hood; lip adnate to the base of the very short column, erect, concave or slightly saccate at base, within naked, or with two calli, more or less contracted above the base. Leaves linear, ovate, or lanceolate, petiolate. Only one species calls for mention here. It requires similar treatment to that recommended for Anoectochilus.
Z. regia (royal). Striped King of the Woods. fl. white and green, in loose spikes; lip split into a pair of roundish, crenate lobes. l. ovate-lanceolate, 3in. long, with a dark green margin and a broad, pale lilac or whitish band down the centre. h. 5in. Borneo. SYNS. Anaectochilus lineatus, Haplochilus regium, Monochilus regium.