Small trees; stems subterete, rather densely strigose or subtomentose with light brownish hairs up to 0.5 mm. long; leaf blades oblong- elliptic, up to 12 cm. long and 5 cm. wide, short-acuminate (the tip itself blunt) narrowed at base, rather firm, entire, the upper surface glabrous or sparingly and minutely strigose, the costa and lateral veins (about 6 pairs) more densely so, the hairs up to 0.28 mm. long, the lower surface rather densely and softly strigose or hirsute, the venation rather prominent, the cystoliths obscure or lacking; petioles up to 3.5 cm. long, slender, densely strigose or subtomentose; spikes terminal and subterminal, up to 2.5 cm. long and 12 mm. broad, the bracts closely imbricate, quadrifarious and secund, the peduncles up to 1 cm. long, these and the rachises densely hirsute or subtomentose with ascending hairs; dorsal bracts sterile, ovate, 11 mm. long and 8 mm. wide, subobtuse and subapiculate, obtuse at base, submembranaceous, hirsute and ciliate, the hairs up to 1.25 mm. long, spreading or ascending, the costa and about 4 pairs of lateral veins rather promi- nent; ventral bracts (those subtending the flowers) broadly oblance- olate, 14 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, acute, gradually narrowed from about the middle to base, submembranaceous, hirsute and ciliate, the hairs up to 2 mm. long, the costa and a pair of lateral veins rather promi- nent; bractlets lanceolate, 9 mm. long and 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, acumi- nate, pilose and ciliate; calyx 1 cm. long, the segments lanceolate, 0.75 mm. wide, slenderly acuminate, ciliate and sparingly hirsute; corolla white, about 2.5 cm. long except the glabrous basal portion, sparingly pilose, the hairs spreading or retrorsely ascending, up to 0.5 mm. long, the lips subequal, the upper lip erect, 1 cm. long, triangular-ovate, 3.5 mm. wide near base, rather gradually narrowed to a subacute tip, the lower lip more or less spreading, obovate, 4 mm. wide near middle, 3-lobed, the lobes oblong-ovate, 3 mm. long, 1.25 mm. wide, rounded, the outer lobes slightly incurved; stamens reach- ing the tip of the upper lip, slender, glabrous, flattened, subhyaline, the anther-lobes superposed, 1.25 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, vertically attached to the connective, this about 0.75 mm. long, the lower anther lobe calcarate, its tail about 0.5 mm. long, white, the upper anther-lobe subacute at the base; ovary glabrous; capsules not seen. Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 1953042, collected along the Río Apoporis, on the Cerro de "El Castillo," Comisaría of Caquetá, Colombia, January 16, 1944, by G. Gutiérrez-V. and R. E. Schultes (No. 606). Isotype: Valle. The bracts, bractlets, and calyx of the dried specimens are red.