Shrub, up to 75 cm. high, slender, straight, the tips of the branches densely strigose, the hairs sordid, about 0.5 mm. long, the lower por- tions of the stems terete, glabrate, the lenticels minute, brown, corky, inconspicuous; leaf blades obovate or broadly oblanceolate, up to 30 cm. long and 11.5 mm. wide, short-acuminate (the tip itself obtuse or rounded), narrowed at base and decurrent on the petiole, submem- branaceous, entire or undulate, the upper surface drying to olive- green, glabrous, minutely alveolate under lens, the costa and lateral veins flat or slightly raised, barely conspicuous, the lower surface dry- ing to green or light olive-green, sparingly strigose, the hairs sordid, about 0.75 mm. long, the costa and lateral veins rather densely strigose, raised and more conspicuous than on the upper surface; petioles (un- winged portion) up to 1 cm. long, the pubescence similar to that of the stem; spikes solitary, terminal, up to 22 cm. long and 1 cm. broad, the peduncle barely 0.5 cm. long and 3.5 mm. in diameter, densely strigose, the rachis minutely pilose, the hairs barely 0.5 mm. long, as- cending, yellowish; bracts rhombic-ovate, 12 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, rounded and subapiculate at apex, coriaceous, bright red (living), dry- ing to yellowish brown, glabrous within, minutely scurfy without, the costa and nerves prominent, the margins subhyaline, ciliolate except toward base, the ocelli replaced by a dull elliptic faveolate area about 2.5 mm. long and 1 mm. wide; bractlets lanceolate, subfalcate, carinate, 12 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, the keel densely pilose, the hairs about 0.5 mm. long, light brown or whitish, ascending, the margins striate- nerved, subhyaline; calyx about 2 cm. long, the posterior segment ob- long, elliptic, slightly over 5 mm. wide, finely pilose toward tip, the hairs whitish, subappressed, the anterior pair 4.5 mm. wide, the lateral pair somewhat narrower than the anterior pair and like them, glabrous or bearing a few hairs at tip, all of the segments acute (the tip itself blunt, minutely apiculate) and ciliate; corolla yellow, drying brown, minutely hirsute, the hairs subappressed or ascending, some of them as much as 0.5 mm. long, the tube slightly curved, 4 cm. long, 4 mm. broad at base, narrowed to 3 mm. at 5 mm. above base, thence gradually enlarged into a subcylindric throat 7 mm. broad at mouth, the upper lip erect, elliptic, 15 mm. long and 7 mm. wide, bilobed, the lobes tri- angular-ovate, about 8 mm. long, slenderly acuminate, the middle lobe of the lower lip spreading, ovate, 15 mm. long, about 7 mm. wide, acumi- nate, strigose within, the hairs closely appressed, about 0.5 mm. long, the lateral lobes triangular, about 4 mm. long, partly adnate to the lower part of the upper lip, their free portions about 1.5 mm. long and 1 mm. wide, obtuse; ovary glabrous; stamens and capsules not seen. Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 1770464, collected in dense forest along the Quebrada Jellita, Bahía Solano, Department of Chocó, Colombia, 50 to 100 meters altitude, February 22, 1939, by E. P. Killip and Hernando García-Barriga (No. 33532). Aphelandra garciae is distinct from other species of the Aphelandra pulcherrima-tetragona complex in its yellow, minutely hirsute corollas (at least the lower lip strigose within), and in the minutely pilose rachis. Its closest relative is possibly A. blandii. Killip and Cuatrecasas' No. 39123, collected in dense tidal forest along the banks of Quebrada Togoromá, Chocó, June 13, 1944, is un- doubtedly of this species even though the color of the corolla is noted as red.