Herbs; stems weak, 1 to 2 mm. in diameter, subterete, pilose, the hairs spreading, up to 1.5 mm. long, septate; leaf blades lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, up to 6 cm. long and 2 cm. wide, acute to short- acuminate (the tip itself subacute), cuneate at base, thin, entire, rather densely pilose on both surfaces and ciliate, the hairs ascending, up to 1 mm. long, the costa and lateral veins (about 6 pairs) barely prominent beneath, obscure above; petioles up to 2 em. long, pilose; panicles lax, few-flowered, leafy, the branches simple or once-forked, the rhachis and rachilla rather copiously pilose, the hairs spreading, conspicuously septate, occasionally a few of the hairs terminating in a minute brownish conical gland, the leaflike bracts subtending the branches of the inflorescence 1 to 3 cm. long, 5 to 15 mm. wide; bracts subtending the flowers subulate, up to 2 mm. long and 0.25 mm. wide at base, pilose, the tips usually recurved; calyx 12 mm. long at maturity, rather densely pilose with septate spreading hairs up to 1.5 mm. long, the segments subulate, 1 mm. wide at base, gradu- ally narrowed into a slender bluntish tip; corollas pale to dark red, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, the lower half rather sparingly pilose with septate hairs, these spreading and up to 0.5 mm. long, the upper half glabrous, the tube 1.5 mm. broad at base, narrowed to 1 mm. at 3 mm. above base, thence abruptly expanded to 5 mm., the lips erect or suberect, the upper lip oblong, 7 mm. long, 2 mm. wide near base, the tip rounded and entire, not contorted, the lower lip equaling the upper, ovate, 4.5 mm. wide, 3-lobed, the lobes ovate, about 3 mm. long, the middle one about 2 mm. wide at base, the lateral ones about 1 mm. wide, all rounded; stamens exserted about 1 cm. beyond the mouth of the corolla, glabrous, the anthers 4.5 mm. long and about 1 mm. broad, blunt and minutely apiculate; style slightly exceeding the stamens, the stigma minute; capsule clavate, 13 mm. long, about 5 mm. broad, 2 mm. thick, glabrous; retinacula 2 mm. long, slender, straight or slightly curved, the tips rounded, erose; seeds brown, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 0.75 mm. thick, smoothish or slightly roughened, oblique at base. Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 2045428, collected in temperate forest around San Isidro, 7 km. south of Gachalá, Cordillera Oriental, Department of Cundinamarca, Colombia, 2,200 meters alti- tude, May 27, 1944, by Martin L. Grant and F. R. Fosberg (No. 9343). Earl L. Core's No. 591 (US), collected in dense forest in the vicinity of Los Andes, on the Río Blanco, southeast of Guasca, "9,300 ft." altitude, April 19, 1944, is also of this species. The corollas of the holotype were stated to be pale red, and those of Core's No. 591 dark red.