18. Justicia chaetocephala (Mildbr.) Leonard, comb. nov. Beloperone chaetocephala Mildbr. Notizblatt Bot. Gart. Berlin 11: 70. 1930. Type in the Berlin Herbarium, collected at La Portada, Santa Marta, Department of Magdalena, Colombia, 250 meters altitude, December 23, 1926, by Arnold Schultze, No. 679. Photograph US (Field Mus. No. 8925). Name is from xairy, hair, and kepaλh, head. Slender, sometimes half scandent shrubs up to 1.5 meters high; stems subquadrangular, 4-sulcate, glabrous to moderately puberulous, the hairs curved, subappressed, about 0.25 mm. long; internodes 1 to 9 cm. long; leaf blades elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 3 to 12 cm. long, 1 to 5 cm. wide, acuminate, acute to obtuse at base, moderately firm, entire or undulate, the upper surface glabrous or the costa puberulous, the cystoliths numerous and conspicuous under a lens, the lower sur- face more or less minutely punctate, sparingly to moderately puberu- lous, the hairs up to 0.5 mm. long, spreading or ascending, the cys- toliths usually less conspicuous than above, the costa and lateral veins (5 to 7 pairs) more prominent than above; petioles rather slender, up to 3 cm. long, puberulous; flowers borne in crowded terminal subcapitate corymbs; lower bracts usually foliaceous, lanceolate, about 2 cm. long and 5 mm. wide, slenderly acuminate; upper bracts linear-filiform, up to 4 cm. long, 0.5 to 0.75 mm. wide, more or less triangular in cross section, rather densely hirtellous, the hairs ascending, 0.5 mm. long, sometimes a few additional gland-tipped hairs present; bractlets similar but slightly shorter; calyx up to 13 mm. long, deeply seg- mented, the segments lanceolate, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, acuminate, rather sparingly hirtellous and ciliate, the hairs ascending, up to 0.5 mm. long; corolla 3.5 to 4 cm. long, bright red, scarlet or pink, sparingly glandular-pubescent, the hairs 75 to 150μ long, the tube 2.5 cm. long, 3 mm. broad at base, narrowed at 4 mm. above base to 2.5 mm., thence gradually enlarged to 5 mm. at mouth, the upper lip erect, lance-ovate, 2.5 cm. long, 6 mm. wide near base, bidentate at tip, the lobes 1 mm. long, 0.75 mm. wide, spreading from a rounded sinus, the lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, about 2 cm. long, the lobes obovate, subequal, about 1 cm. long and 7 mm. wide, rounded at tip; stamens exserted about 12 mm. beyond mouth of corolla tube, the filaments glabrous; anther cells widely divergent, slightly superposed, the upper cell horizontal, 2.5 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, muticous at base, the lower cell 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, the basal spur white, blunt, 0.3 mm. long, the connective about 1 mm. broad; pistil exserted 1 cm. beyond mouth of corolla tube, glabrous; ovary glabrous. Endemic. Limited to damp forests or thickets of Magdalena. Haught's No. 3716 was collected at 300 meters altitude. Vageler's No. 22, a paratype probably in the Berlin Herbarium, was cited by Mildbraed. This was collected in a forest at Banco, Department of Magdalena. MAGDALENA: Road to east from Becerril, about 60 km. northeast of Chiriguaná, Haught 2302 (US). Forest of Cerro Chimichagua, about 4 km. north of Chimi- chagua, Haught 2360 (US). Damp forest near Codazzi, Haught 3716 (US). Forests near La Jagua, 40 km. northeast of Chiriguaná, Cyril Allen 628 (GH); Haught 2283 (US); Haught 3645 (US). Bushland, lower Magdalena, Dawe 440 (K, US). WITHOUT LOCALITY: Mutis 3904 (US).