20. Ruellia colorata Balll. Ruellia colorata Baill. Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 2: 853. 1800. Type col- lected by Grisar in Peru or Ecuador. Suffrutescent herbs; stems glabrous, quadrangular; leaf blades large, oblong-elliptic, up to 30 cm. long and 15 cm. wide, more or less abruptly acuminate, narrowed at base and decurrent on the petiole, thin, the margins undulate or shallowly or sometimes coarsely crenate, both surfaces glabrous, the cystoliths prominent under a lens, the costa and lateral veins (8 or 9 pairs) conspicuous; petioles up to 2 cm. long, glabrous; flowers borne in a terminal spike up to 12 cm. long and 8 cm. wide, bracts ovate, up to 6 cm. long and 3.5 cm. wide, acutish to obtuse at apex, rounded or slightly narrowed at base, both surfaces minutely and sparingly hirsute or glabrate, the margins entire, the peduncles up to 10 mm. long, these and the rachis more or less puberulous; bract- lets linear, 1.5 cm, long, 2 mm. wide, obtusish at apex, red, sparingly and minutely pubescent; calyx about 1 cm. long, red, sparingly and minutely pubescent, the segments lanceolate, 8 to 9 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; bracts ovate, up to 6 cm. long and 3.5 cm. wide, acutish to obtuse pubescent without, glabrous within, the tube about 6 mm. broad at base, narrowed to 2 mm. at about 10 mm. above base, thence rather abruptly enlarged to 7 mm., then gradually to 12 mm. at mouth, ven- tricose, the segments oblong, up to 19 mm. long and 9 mm. wide, rounded at tip, the filaments exserted 1 cm. beyond mouth of the corolla tube; anthers linear-lanceolate, 5.5 to 6 mm. long, 1 to 1.5 mm. wide at base, gradually narrowed to 0.5 mm. at tip; ovary glabrous; mature capsule not seen. Dense forests. Peru, Ecuador, and southern Colombia. PUTUMAYO: Río San Miguel in the region of Bermeja, Cuatrecasas 11027 (US). Río San Miguel, in the vicinity of Conejo, Schultes 3507 (US).