Suffrutescent herbs up to 40 cm. high; stems glabrous below, the upper portions rather densely and retrorsely strigose, the hairs about 0.5 mm. long, brownish; leaf blades oblong-elliptic to obovate, up to 17 cm. long and 6.5 cm wide, short-acuminate, narrowed at base and decurrent on the petiole, subcoriaceous, entire or undulate, the upper surface green, glabrous or sparingly strigose, the hairs about 0.5 mm. long, the lower surface pale ashy, more densely strigose than above, the costa and veins (10 to 12 pairs) rather prominent; petioles (un- winged portion) about 1 cm. long, retrorsely strigose like the stems; spike solitary, terminal, about 12 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, the bracts rather loosely appressed, the rachis strigose; bracts oblong-elliptic, 3 cm. long, 14.5 mm. wide, obtusish and minutely apiculate at apex, apparently closely striate-veined (the meshes of the reticulations com- pressed), opaque, bordered by a narrow subhyaline margin about 0.5 mm. wide, the lower half of the bract strigose, the hairs 0.75 mm. long, the upper half glabrous; bractlets narrowly lanceolate, 6 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide at base, gradually narrowed into a slender tip, thin, sparingly strigose dorsally; calyx segments minute, triangular, about 0.75 mm. long and broad, acuminate, thin, subhyaline; corolla cream white, about 3 cm. long, densely hirsute, the hairs more or less ap- pressed, 0.75 mm. long, brown, the tube 3.5 mm. broad at base, 5 mm. broad at mouth, the lips about equal, the upper lip oblong, about 4 mm. wide, 2-lobed at tip, the lobes rounded, the middle lobe of the lower lip oval, about 9 mm. long and 7 mm. wide, rounded, the lateral lobes lanceolate, 8 mm. long and 2.5 mm. wide at middle, blunt at tip; stamens reaching the mouth of the corolla and probably slightly ex- serted; ovary glabrous; capsule not seen. Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 1852501, collected at La Trojita, along the Río Calima, Department of El Valle, Colombia, 5 to 50 meters altitude, February 19 to March 10, 1944, by J. Cuatrecasas (No. 16705). Killip's No. 34938 (US), collected in dense forest east of Buenaventura, El Valle, near sea level, April 12, 1939, is also this species. Aphelandra cuatrecasasii, like A. killipi, is related to A. doli- chantha, but differs by its obtusish bracts. The cream-colored corollas and narrow lanceolate bractlets of A. cuatrecasasii serve to distinguish it from A. killipii, a species with reddish corollas and triangular bractlets. The following field note accompanies the type: "Sufrutex, 30-40 cm.; hoja herbácea verde claro haz, pálida cenicienta envés; brácteas verdoso amarillento pálidas; corola blanco crema."