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2. Bravaisia tubiflora Hemsl. in Hook. Icon. PI. 16: -pi. 1516. 1886. 



Yucatan; type from Cozumel Island. 



Shrub or tree, sometimes 7.5 meters high, the branchlets hirtellous; leaves 

 elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 4 to 7 cm. long, acute at base, glabrate; corolla purplish, 

 2 to 2.5 cm. long, the lobes usually emarginate. 



5. APHELANDRA R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 475. 1810. 

 Shrubs or large herbs; leaves large; flowers red or yellow, sessile in the axes of 

 large imbricate opposite bracts, forming large terminal spikes; calyx 5-parted, 

 the segments narrow, subequal or the posterior one larger; corolla tube straight or 

 incurved, sometimes ampliate above, the limb bilabiate, the posterior lip erect, 

 the anterior reflexed-spreading, 3-lobate; stamens 4; ovules 2 in each cell. 



Leaves quaternate 1. A. verticillata. 



Leaves opposite. 

 Bracts entire. 



Bracts acuminate. 



Lateral lobes of the lower lip of the corolla nearly as long as the central 



one 2. A. madrensis. 



Lateral lobes much shorter than the central one 3. A. pulcherrima. 



Bracts very obtuse. 



Corolla pilose outside; bracts about 2 cm. long 4. A. schiedeana. 



Corolla glabrous; bracts 3 to 4 cm. long 5. A. speciosa. 



Bracts serrate. 



Lateral lobes of the lower lip one-third as long as the central one or longer. 



6. A. aurantiaca. 

 Lateral lobes of the lower lip less than one-fourth as long as the central one. 



7. A. deppeana. 



1. Aphelandra verticillata Nees (in DC. Prodr. 11: 281, as synonym. 1849); 



Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 513. 1882. 



Crossandra haenkeana Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 281. 1847. 



Type from somewhere in Mexico. 



Plants herbaceous, 60 to 90 cm. high, villous; leaves ovate, 9 cm. long or less, 

 acuminate, attenuate at base, pilose above, pubescent beneath; bracts elliptic, 

 cuspidate, glabrous but ciliate; corolla glabrous, 3.5 cm. long. 



Known to the writer only from the original description. 



2. Aphelandra madrensis Lindau, Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 4: 326. 1904. 

 Type from the Sierra Madre of Michoacan or Guerrero, altitude 1,600 meters. 

 Shrub 3 to 4 meters high, the branches glabrous; leaves oblong or ovate, 10 to 



15 cm. long, obtuselj' acuminate, glabrous above, pubescent beneath along the 

 nerves; bracts about 17 mm. long; corolla red, puberulent, the tube 28 mm. long, 

 the posterior lip 7 mm. long. 



3. Aphelandra pulcherrima (Jacq.) H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 236. 1817. 

 Justicia pulcherrima Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 11. 1760. 



Reported from Guerrero. Martinique and northern South America. 



Shrub, the branches villous above; leaves elliptic or ovate, decurrent at base 

 into a short petiole, villous beneath; bracts half as long as the calyx, ovate, 

 pubescent and ciliate; corolla red, villous. 



Probably not distinct from A. tetragona (Vahl) Nees, which occurs in Panama 

 and Costa Rica. 



4. Aphelandra schiedeana Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 5: 95. 1830. 

 Veracruz and Oaxaca; type from Hacienda de la Laguna and Barranca de 



Tioselo, Veracruz. 



