1. Teliostachya alopecuroidea (Vahl) Nees
Ruellia alopecuroidea Vahl, Eclog. Amer. 2:49. 1798. Alopecurus and elbos, the form of i. e., resembling the genus Alopecurus L. Type collected in Mont- serrat, West Indies, by Ryan. Photograph of type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 22196.
Teliostachya alopecuroidea Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 9: 72. 1847. Based on Ruellia alopecuroidea Vahl.
Lepidagathis alopecuroides R. Br. ex Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 453. 1864. A transfer based on Ruellia alopecuroidea Vahl.  Herbs up to 50 cm. high, usually much branched, erect, decumbent or ascending, sometimes rooting at the lower nodes, short-pilose; leaf blades thin, ovate to elliptic, 3 to 8 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. wide, acute or obtuse at apex, narrowed at base, repand or entire; spikes usually terminal, 2 to 8 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter, many-flowered; bracts lanceolate to oblong, about 6 mm. long, venose, ciliate; calyx segments unequal, 4 to 6 mm. long, the anterior pair lanceolate, con- nate at the base, the lateral pair linear, the posterior segment obovate; corolla white or violet, about as long as the calyx; stamens 4, free at base, the anther sacs parallel, slightly unequal, blunt at base; capsules sessile, glabrous, 4-seeded, about 4 mm. long.
Wet shaded banks in woods, thickets, and fields. Brazil, British Guiana, Colombia, French Guiana, Peru, Trinidad, Venezuela. Ex- tending northward into Central America and the West Indies.
MAGDALENA: Poponte, Magdalena Valley, Cyril Allen 912 (Mo). META; Villavicencio, Hermann 11156 (US).