ROSE—-MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN PLANTS. 2738 
tube is silky-pubescent instead of glabrous, the rachis is glabrous not hairy, the leat- 
lets are fewer and larger, and it has a different geographical range. 
The specific name is given as this plant is the host of Apodanthes pringlei S. Wats. 
Parosela lutea (Cav.) Rose. 
Psoralea lutea Cav. Ie. 4: 12. pl. 825, 1797. 
Dalea lutea Willd. Sp. Pl. 8: 1341. 1801. 
Parosela macrostachya (Moric.) Rose. 
Dalea macrostachya Moric. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 6: 534. pl. 5, 1833, 
Parosela saffordii Rose, sp. nov. 
Low bushy shrubs; branches often short and stout, glabrous; stipules persistent, 
purplish; leaflets 9 to 18, oblanceolate to spatulate, 2 to 3mm. long, retuse, glabrous, 
glandular beneath, rather thickish, the margins often revolute; rachis of leaf rather 
thickish; stipels distinct; heads shortly peduncled, often appearing sessile; bracts 
lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate; calyx hairy, the teeth filiform nearly as long as the 
tube; petals purplish; keel and wings attached to the stamen tube near its base. 
Collected by William E. Safford, February 3, 1907 (no. 1246). The same species 
was collected in 1880 (no. 208) by Dr. E. Palmer in the Sierra Madre 40 miles 
south of Saltillo and distributed as Dalea polycephala, D, polycephala, however, has 
pubescent stems and leaves. 
Type U. 8. National Herbarium no. 575295. 
This species is much nearer 7. formosa, but has narrow bracts and shorter calyx 
teeth. The species is named in honor of Lieutenant William E. Safford, now of the 
Department of Agriculture. 
Parosela schaffneri (Hemsl.) Rose. 
Dalea schaffneri Hemsl. Diag. Pl. Nov. 1: 7. 1878. 
Near P. lasiostoma Rose. 
Parosela similis (Hemsl.) Rose. 
Dalea similis Hemsl. Diag. Pl. Nov. 1: 7. 1878. 
Parosela tomentosa (Cay.) Rose. 
Psoralea tomentosa Cay. Ic. 3: 21. pl. 240. 1794, 
Dalea tomentosa Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 1541. 1801. 
MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES. 
The following species are of genera which have been wholly or in 
part revised by the writer. 
Crotalaria gloriosa Rose, sp. nov. 
Slender shrub about 2 meters high, all the young parts covered with a dense 
golden-yellow pubescence; leaflets 3, lanceolate, 4 to 6 cm. long, acute, densely 
pubescent on both surfaces; inflorescence a long, slender, many-flowered raceme; 
bracts linear, persistent; calyx very pubescent; corolla large, 15 mm. long, very 
hairy without; keel strongly pointed; pods densely silky-pubescent. 
Yollected by Rose and Painter in mountains near Iguala, August 10 to 12, 1905 
(no. 9412). 
Type U.S. National Herbarium no. 452900. 
This is perhaps nearest C. molliculata and (. eriocarpa, but the petals are very 
hairy without, the upper surface of the leaves much more pubescent, ete. 
Indigofera tumidula Rose, sp. nov. 
Stem soft-wooded, 6 meters or more in height; branches herbaceous, appressed- 
pubescent; leaflets 3 to 7, oblong, 3 to 4 cm. long, rounded at base and apex, 
mucronately tipped, slightly appressed-pubescent on both surfaces, paler beneath; 
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