Herbs up to 40 cm. high; stems ascending, subquadrangular, glabrous or sparingly hirtellous, the hairs recurved, up to 0.25 mm. Jong; leaf blades oblong-ovate, up to 10 cm. long and 4 cm. wide, acuminate (the tip itself blunt), narrowed at base and briefly decur- rent on the petiole, submembranaceous, entire or shallowly crenate, both surfaces glabrous or the costa and lateral veins (9 or 10 pairs) of the lower surface strigose, the hairs about 0.75 mm. long; pet- oles up to 1.5 cm. long, sparingly strigose, the hairs similar to hose of costa and veins; spikes terminal, solitary, subsessile, 3 to 3 cm. long, about 2 cm. broad (without corollas), the rhachis angled, minutely and sparingly puberulous; bracts rhombic-ovate, 2 cm. long, 9 mm. wide, subacute, submembranaceous, rather prom- nently nerved, the veinlets coarsely reticulate, the outer surface minutely puberulous, the inner glabrous or nearly so, the margins ciliate or toward tip very minutely ciliolate; bractlets lance-subulate, mm. long, 0.75 mm. wide at base, subcarinate, striate, subcoriaceous, minutely puberulous toward tip; calyx segments subequal, 8.5 to 9 mm. long, subcoriaceous, striate (the nerves swollen at base), minutely nd inconspicuously puberulous, the posterior segment lanceolate, 2 mm. wide, acuminate, sometimes with a minute tooth near tip, the nterior segments narrowly lanceolate and slenderly acuminate, 1.5 m. wide near base, the lateral segments linear-lanceolate, 0.75 mm. vide near the base, slenderly acuminate; corolla orange-scarlet, 5 cm. ong, sparingly and finely pubescent, the hairs about 0.25 mm. long, The tube about 3 mm. broad at base, the mouth 7 mm. broad, the upper lip erect, ovate, 13 mm. long and 12 mm. wide, obtuse or rounded, the lower lip 3-parted, the lobes obovate, rounded, the middle one 15 mm. long and 9 mm. wide, the lateral ones 13 mm. long and 7 mm. wide; stamens slightly exserted but shorter than the upper lip; ovary sparingly puberulous; capsules not seen. Type in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, col- lected in damp primeval woods near Viotá, Department of Cundina- marca, Colombia, 1,800 meters altitude, February 18, 1876, by Edouard François André (No. 1658). An isotype is also in the Kew herbarium.