14. Aphelandra mollis (Nees) Leonard, nov. comb. Lagochilium molle Nees, DC. Prodr. 11: 292. 1847. Type collected in Colombia by Goudot and deposited in the Hooker Herbarium, Kew. Decumbent herb; stems about 3 mm. in diameter, at least the lower portions fistulose, the ascending portion about 25 em. high, pilose, the hairs sordid, upwardly appressed, up to or slightly exceeding 0.5 mm. in length; leaf blades ovate, up to 11 cm. long and 6 em. wide, the greatest width at about 1/4 the length of the blade from base, rather gradually narrowed thence to the obtuse tip, obtuse, rounded, or shal- lowly and obliquely cordate at base and narrowly decurrent on the petiole nearly to the stem, thin, entire or undulate, the upper surface glabrous or sparingly appressed-pilose, minutely faveolate under lens, the costa and lateral veins (8 to 10 pairs) inconspicuous, arcuate, the lower surface drying a lighter green than the upper, sparingly ap pressed-pilose; petioles up to 4.5 cm. long, the pubescence similar to that of the stems; flowers borne in 1 or 2 simple terminal spikes, the peduncles up to 6 cm. long, the rachis 4 to 6 cm. long, pilose, the hairs slender, sordid, appressed or ascending; bracts oblong-ovate, up to 14 mm. long and 5 mm. wide, acute to acutish, the tip itself obtuse, nar- rowed at base, thin, glabrous or sparingly pilosulous, delicately and inconspicuously veined, the margins minutely and distantly dentate above middle, sparingly ciliolate, bractlets subulate, costate, subhy- aline, ciliate; calyx 5 mm. long, the posterior segment broadly lanceo- late, 1.25 mm. wide, obtuse and apiculate, the middle and anterior pairs lanceolate, 1 mm. wide, slenderly acuminate, all subhyaline, striate- nerved, glabrous, ciliolate; corolla 22 mm. long, glabrous or minutely and sparingly pubescent, a bright, soft yellow, the lower portion cylin- drie, 1 mm. broad, the upper narrowly ampliate, about 5 mm. broad at mouth, the lobes subequal, 6 to 7 mm. long, the lower lobe about 6 mm. wide, the others about 3 mm. wide, all rounded, the margins un- dulate; stamens 10 to 15 mm. long, the anthers 2 mm. long, 0.25 mm. wide, contiguous at least at tip by a webby tomentum; capsules 1 cm. long, about 2 mm. broad, pointed at apex, glabrous, minutely punc- tate, potentially 4-seeded, the seeds brown, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, about 1 mm. thick, sparingly hirtellous, the hairs brown, appressed or ascending. SANTANDER: Camp Mesa, in the vicinity of Barranca Bermeja, Magdalena Valley, between Río Sogamoso and Río Colorado, 100 to 500 meters altitude. Haught 1497 (US). Haught's specimen was taken on January 5, 1935, from a suffrutes- cent plant producing a running woody rhizome and growing along a stream in rich alluvial soil. The flowers were bright yellow and very showy.