Suffrutescent, probably up to 1 meter high; stems quadrangular, subtomentose, the hairs up to 1 mm, long; leaf blades ovate-lanceolate, 16 cm. long and 6 cm. wide, rounded to acute at base, acuminate at tip (the tip itself subobtuse), moderately firm, crenate, the upper surface glabrous, the lower puberulous, the hairs confined chiefly to the costa and veins (10 to 12 pairs), subappressed, up to 0.25 mm. long, the venation rather obscure, the cystoliths prominent, up to 0.16 mm. long; petioles up to 4 cm. long, puberulous, the hairs up to 0.16 mm. long, mostly appressed; flowers borne in fascicles, these sessile, forming up to three terminal and subterminal spikes, the longer 9 cm. long and all about 2 cm. broad, the fascicles interrupted toward base of spikes and confluent toward tip; bracts subtending the fascicles leaflike, mostly up to 2.5 cm. long and up to 8 mm. wide; bracts subtending the flowers oblong, 8 to 10 mm. long and 2.5 to 4 mm. wide, rounded at tip, ciliate and loosely pilose, the hairs spreading or ascending, up to 1.5 mm. long, dorsally the costa sub- tomentose with appressed, curved hairs up to 0.25 mm. long; calyx parted nearly to base, the segments linear, 12 mm. long, gradually narrowed from 1 mm. wide at base to a slender obtuse tip, pilose and ciliate with spreading or ascending hairs up to 1.5 mm. long, the dorsal surface bearing additional appressed hairs up to 0.25 mm. long; corolla light orange, pubescent (the hairs variously curved, up to 0.5 mm. long), up to 3 cm. long, the tube 2 mm. broad at base, gradually en

larged to 2.5 at 2 cm. above base, thence expanded into a funnelform throat 7 mm. broad at mouth, the lobes orbicular, about 7 mm. in di- ameter, emarginate, the limb about 2 cm.broad, the longer pair of stamens slightly exserted beyond the mouth of the mouth of the corolla, the shorter pair more or less included, the anthers oblong, 4 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, rounded at both ends, the filaments glabrous, the style about 2 cm. long, glabrous toward tip, minutely and sparingly puber- ulous toward base; capsules clavate, about 12 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, 1.5 mm, thick, puberulous, the hairs ascending at tip, retrorse toward base, up to 0.3 mm. long; retinacula slender, linear, slightly curved, thin and fimbriate at tip, about 0.5 mm. wide; seeds not seen.

Type in the Kew Herbarium, collected in the woods about Salitre, Department of Cundinamarca, Colombia, 400 meters altitude, January 5, 1876, by Edouard André (No. 1203).

There seem to be no close relatives of this species in Colombia. The specific epithet was suggested by the color of the corolla.