13. Aphelandra parviflora Leonard Aphelandra parviflora Leonard, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 25: 439. 1935. Type collected in the region of Mount Chapón, Department of Boyacá, Colombia, June 10, 1932, by A. E. Lawrance (No. 201) and deposited in the Kew Herbarium. Isotypes are in the herbaria of the Missouri (No. 1039195) and the New York Botanical Gardens, and in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 1572318. Lawrance's No. 291, collected in the same general region and deposited in the Kew Herbarium, is also this species. Photo- graphs of it and the type are in the U. S. National Herbarium. Herbs; stems 10 cm. high, or more, ascending, rooting at the lower nodes, strigose; leaves usually several, the blades oblong, up to 25 cm. long and 18 cm. wide, elliptic, obtuse or obtusish at apex, cuneate at base and decurrent on the petioles, entire or undulate, purple beneath, sparingly strigillose, except the costa and lateral nerves (15 to 18 pairs), these strigose; petioles slender, up to 6 cm. long, strigillose; spikes slender, up to 13 cm. long, about 1 cm. in diameter, the peduncles up to 12 cm. long, strigose, bearing a pair of bractlike leaves about 2 cm. below the base of the spike; bracts rather loosely imbricate, erect- spreading, elliptic, 1 cm. long, 3 to 4 mm. wide, acuminate, ending in an obtuse tip, firm, veiny, sparingly strigose, bearing on each side several erect-spreading teeth up to 1.5 mm. long; bractlets lance- subulate, 3.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide at base, thin, subhyaline, nerved: calyx segments narrowly oblong, acuminate, subequal, 5 to 6 mm. long, the posterior one 2 mm, wide, the anterior pair 1.5 mm. wide, the lateral pair 1 mm. wide, all subhyaline, striate-nerved, minutely glandular-ciliolate; corolla pale yellow, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, obliquely funnel-form, minutely and sparingly pubescent, the tube 1 mm, broad at base, about 4 mm. broad at mouth; limb about 8 mm. broad, the lips equal, the upper one 2-lobed, 5.4 mm. wide, the lower 3-lobed, the lobes orbicular, 4.5 mm. in diameter; stamens included. The type was collected in a low thick forest 100 miles northwest of Bogotá, at an altitude of 3,500 feet. The plants were from 10 to 14 inches high, and very attractive. The flowers were yellow and inodorous. BOYACA: Vicinity of Mount Chapón, Lawrence 201 (Kew, Mo, NY, US), 291 (Kew).