Herbs; stems glabrous; leaf blades oblong-elliptic, up to 20 cm. long and 6 cm. wide, acuminate, narrowed at base, membranous, entire, glabrous, the costa and lateral veins (about 12 pairs) moderately prominent; petioles up to 2 cm. long, glabrous; flowers borne in at 3-parted inflorescence, the peduncle up to 4 cm. long, minutely strigose, the secondary peduncles 1 to 2 cm. long, slender, minutely strigose, the spikes 2 to 4 cm. long, dense, the bracts spreading or ascending, the rachis puberulous, the internodes of the spikes up to 8 mm. long; bracts subtending the secondary peduncles lanceolate, 12 to 15 mm. long, 2 to 5 mm. wide, those subtending the flower clusters (these sessile or borne on puberulous peduncles up to 3 mm. long) ovate, 7 mm. long and 4 mm. wide, acute, thin, glabrous, sparingly punctate (the puncta appearing under microscope as small blunt projections), ciliate, the margins bearing towards tip a small pair of teeth, the costa prominent; bractlets obliquely lanceolate, carinate, 2 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, acute, subhyaline, ciliate, the costa prominent; calyx 3 mm. long, the segments lanceolate, acute, subhyaline, delicately nerved, the margins sparingly ciliolate, the posterior segment 1 mm. wide, the anterior and lateral segments slightly narrower; corolla puberulous, rose-blue ("rosco-cianeis") about 7 mm. long, the tube slender, 1 mm. broad at base and throat, slightly wider above middle, the lips 3.5 mm. long, the upper lip ovate, about 2 mm. broad, obtuse, the lower lip 3-parted, the lobes divided nearly to base, obovate, about 1.5 mm. wide, obtuse, ciliate; stamens reaching the mouth of the corolla tube, the anthers about 2 mm. long and 0.5 mm. broad, acute at both ends, pilose and cohering at tip, the filaments slender, about 0.5 mm. long; ovary gla- brous; style slender, 3 mm. long, the stigma flat, lanceolate, acute, 0.5 mm. long and 0.25 mm. wide. Type in the Herbario Nacional Colombiano, collected at Novita, De- partment of Chocó, Colombia, 170 meters altitude, March, 1853, by J. Triana, s. n. Triana's specimen (s. n., Col) collected at San Pablo, 100 meters altitude, March 1853, may be of this species. It differs, however, from the Novita specimen in having glabrous peduncles and lax spikes with lanceolate undulate bracts. Aphelandra botanodes belong to the Lagochilium group given generic status by Nees (DC. Prodr. 11: 290. 1847). These plants. are usually small and herbaceous, standing midway between Aphelandra and Stenandrium. The name botanodes is the Greek word sorayons, meaning herbaceous.