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Stenophylla Standl.

Wet forests.

Central America to Peru.

Suffrutescent, about 1 meter high; leaf blades narrowly lanceolate, 20-25 cm long, 25-3 cm wide, gradually narrowed at both ends, glabrous, shining, coarsely sinuate-repand; petioles 1-3 cm long; spikes terminal, sessile; bracts oblong, 25 cm long, acuminate, puberulent, pectinate- dentate; corolla 25-3 cm long, orange-scarlet, the upper lip erect, entire, the lower lip 3-lobed, the lobes subequal, the middle one oval, the lateral ones oblong-lanceolate.

Aphelandra Seibertii Leonard.

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