Characterized by long, slender, branching inflores- 
cences with short-lived, minute flowers produced in suc- 
cession. Column is extended into a long excavate and 
channel-like foot which is continuous with the lip. Pol- 
linia 2, each split in equal halves, 
Bogoria taeniorhiza (Schitr.) Schltr. probably repre- 
sents a different genus because of the two separate stipes 
to the pollinia, a condition known only among African 
and American genera. | have not yet seen any material. 
Bogoria Merrillii (Ames) Garay, comb. nov. 
Basionym: Sarcochilus Merrillii Ames, Orchid. 5: 213, 1915. 
Brachypeza Garay, gen. nov. 
Type: Saccolabium Archytas Ridl. 
Etymology: brachys=short, and peza= foot, in refer- 
ence to the characteristically short column-foot. 
Sepala petalaque patentia, libera. Sepalum posticum 
erectum, concavum plus minusve incurvum. Sepala 
lateralia obliqua. Labellum pede columnae articulatum, 
dependens, rectum vel arcuatum, tubuloso-calcaratum, 
superne 3-lobum; lobis lateralibus erectis, valde pro- 
ductis, lobo intermedio vulgo minuto, recurvo. Columna 
arcuatim erecta, elongata, supra juxta stigma dilatata, 
infra in pedem brevem vel vix ullum producta. Stigma 
magnum, terminale. Rostellum valde productum, bi- 
dentatum. Pollinia 2, basin versus semidivisa, stipiti 
cuneato-triangulari affixa; glandula distincte evoluta. 
Herbae epiphyticae; caulibus abbreviatis, foliosis; 
foliis carnosis, paucis distichis; inflorescentiis patenti- 
bus, vel pendulis, longe pedunculatis, supra racemosis; 
floribus fugaceis, succedaneis. 
The elongate column with a short foot, the hanging 
hp and the peculiar pollinia, each of which is divided to 
the middle at the basal half where it is attached to the 
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