12. Aphelandra arnoldii Mildbr. Aphelandra arnoldii Mildbr. Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 11: 63. 1930. Type collected in damp humus on wooded mountain slope at San Lorenzo, De- partment of Magdalena, Colombia, 2,150 meters altitude, February 1927, by Dr. Arnold Schultze (No. 771) and deposited in the Berlin Herbarium. Photograph of the Berlin type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 8697. Herbs; stem short; roots long and numerous, extending apparently a little above the ground; leaf blades subrosulate, crowded, the blades narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 15 to 30 cm. long, short-acuminate at apex (the tip itself obtuse), long and narrowly decurrent on the petiole, the upper surface short-appressed-pilose, the costa plane, the lateral veins (15 to 17 pairs) forming angles of about 70 degrees, arcuate, ascending; petioles 4 to 6 cm. long; flowers borne in spikes, the scape axillary, about 25 cm. long, appressed-puberulous, extending above the rosette of leaves, the spike itself 5 to 8 cm. long; bracts erect-spreading, scarcely imbricate, lanceolate, 6 to 8 mm. long, barely 2 mm. wide, acute but scarcely pungent, ciliate, the hairs erect-spreading, the margins rarely bearing a few minute teeth, the internodes about 5 mm. long; bractlets similar to the bracts but only 4 mm. long and slenderly subulate-acute; calyx segments thinly scarious, pale, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 4 to 5 mm. long, the interior ones a little shorter than the others and noticeably narrower; corolla bright rosy, the tube narrowly cylindric, suberect, about 1 cm. long, the lobes of the lower lip broadly rounded, broadly cuneate toward base, the middle one 7 mm. long and 5 mm. wide, the lateral ones slightly smaller, the pos- terior pair much smaller (2.5 to 4 mm. long); stamens included, sub- equal, the filaments affixed a little above the middle of the corolla tube, the anthers oblong, obtuse, their tips cohering; ovary 1.5 mm. long. Not seen. Description compiled from the original. Known only from type material.