Shrubby; tips of stems densely hirsute, the hairs subappressed or ascending, about 0.5 mm. long; leaf blades oblong-elliptic, up to 14 cm. long and 6 cm. wide (the lowermost probably larger), obtusish, narrowed at base and decurrent on the petiole, entire or undulate, the upper surface rather sparingly pilose, the hairs about 0.75 mm. long, the lower surface densely and softly pilose, the hairs subap- pressed, brownish, about 1 mm. long; petioles up to 1 cm. long, densely and softly pubescent; spikes solitary, terminal, up to 15 cm. long and about 2 cm. broad, the rachis pilosulous, the peduncles up to 3 cm. long, the pubescence that of the stems; bracts ascending, not closely appressed, light brownish red (dry), oblong-lanceolate, up to 24 mm. long, 4.5 mm. wide near base, 7 mm. wide at middle, prominently striate-nerved, acuminate, ciliate, finely pubescent, velvety, the hairs subappressed, the inner surface glabrous or nearly so; ocelli numerous, minute, up to 40 or more, elliptic, about 0.25 mm. long, light brown, glabrous but scarcely nitid; bractlets subulate, 1 cm. long, 1.5 mm. wide at base, finely and softly pubescent without, finely striate- nerved; calyx segments subequal, about 1 cm. long, the posterior segment narrowly ovate, 4 mm. wide slightly above base, the anterior segments lanceolate, 2.5 mm. wide, the lateral pair narrowly lanceo- late, 2 mm. wide, all gradually narrowed from just above base to a slender tip, finely pubescent and striate-nerved; corolla yellow (?), finely pubescent, 3.5 to 4 cm. long, the upper lip erect, ovate, 2-lobed, the lobes triangular, acuminate, outwardly curved at tip, the lower lip more or less spreading, 3-lobed, the middle lobe oblong, 15 mm. long, 4.5 mm. wide, acute, the lateral lobes narrowly ovate, about 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, obtuse; stamens slightly exserted; ovary glabrous; capsules not seen. Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 1185109, collected at Pacho, Department of Cundinamarca, Colombia, August 1923, by Brother Ariste-Joseph (s. n.). Aphelandra aristei resembles rather closely A. flava Nees, from the description of that species. There are, however, no glandular hairs ("bracteis ... pubescentibus viscidulisque") present on the bracts, as in A flava; moreover, Nees makes no mention of ocelli.