4. Stenandrium humboldtianum Nees Stenandrium humboldtianum Nees, DC. Prodr. 11: 284. 1847. Type collected at Atures, Venezuela, by Humboldt and deposited in the Berlin Herbarium. Photograph in the U. S. National Herbarium (Field Mus. Photograph No. 8683). Named in honor of Alexander von Humboldt. Acaulescent; leaf blades oblong, acuminate, gradually narrowed to a short petiole, hirsute, entire; peduncle 15 to 20 cm. long; spikes loose; bracts lanceolate, slightly longer than the calyx, decussate, spreading; bractlets lanceolate, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, acuminate, ciliolate; calyx segments lanceolate, about 4 mm. long, 0.5 to 1.5 mm. wide, puberulous at tip, striate-nerved; corolla 1.5 cm. long, the tube sub- cylindric, about 1.5 mm. broad, the segments obcordate, emarginate. Colombia, Venezuela. DEPARTMENT (?): Without locality, Claes (US).