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104 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARILIM. 



Parosela polyphylla (Mart. &Ga].) Ro^l\ 



Dalca pohjphijlla Mart. & (Jal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 10^: 44. 1843. 



Parosela citriodora (Willd.) Rose. 



Dalca citriodora Willd. Sp. PL 3: 1839. 1801. 



Parosela mucronata (DC.) Rorio. 



Dalea mucronata DC. Prod. 2: 246. 1825. ' 



Parosela pectinata (Kunth) Rope. 



Dalea pectinata Kunth, Mimoe^. 169. pi, 49, 1819, 



Parosela grayi Vail. 



Parosela acutifolia (DC.) Rose. 



Parosela mutabilis (Cav.) Rose. 



Parosela trochilina (Brandegee) Rose. 



.Dafea fro-^/ii/ma Brande^ee, Proc. Oal. Acad. II- 3:220. 1892. 



Parosela hemsleyana Rosej sp. nov. 



A slirub ^vith numerous long slender purplish brandies closel)' set witli glandular 

 knobs, glabrous; leaves small; leaflets 9 to 15, 2 to 3 mm. long, obtuse, glabrous on 

 both sides, very glandular-doited beneath; peduncles slender; inflorescence a com- 

 pact head; bracts broad; (^alyx silky, about 4 ]nm< long, including the lobes; lobes 

 about two-thirds the length of the tube; corolla purpHsli. 



Type U. S. National Herbarium no. 2443(>, collected by Parry and Palmer near 

 San Luis Potosf, 1878 (no. 154). This is reported in the Biologia Centrali-Americuna 

 as Dalea ramo^hsima Benth., from which 1 think it is abundantly distinct. D. ramo- 

 msimay a Lower Californian species, lias recently been collected by Mr. Brandegee 



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and accords with Bentham^s original description and excellent figure. Bentham*s 

 name must give way to the older one of JNIartius and Galeotti. 



Parosela leucostacliys (A. Cray) Rose. 



Daka, leiicostachys A. Gray, PI. Fendl. 82. 1848. 



Parosela lumholtzii (Rob, & Fern.) Vail. 



Parosela eysenhardtioides (ilemsley) Rose. 

 Dalea eysenhardlio Ides Hem^^loy, Diag. PL Nov. 1: 6. 1878. 



Parosela oaxacana Rose, sp. nov. 



Shrubs, 90 to 120 (;m. high with man^ short ascending brandies clothed with a 

 short soft pubescence, each terminating in a short dense spike of purjilish flowers; 

 leaflets 6 to 15 pairs, narrowly oblong, 6 to 9 ]um. long, pubescent on both sides 

 when young but early glabrate, especially above, rounded at each end, apiculate, 

 iialer beneath^ thickly set with small glands; bracts ovate, acuminate; calyx hairy, 

 the tube not at all angled, slightly cleft on the upper side, the teeth much shorter 

 than the tube, darker-colored, ovate, acute, almost spiny-toothed.' 



Type U. S. National Herbarium no. 402;J8, collected by Dr. C. jLi. Pringle on the 



Sierra de San Felipe, Oaxaca, altitude 2,250 meters, October 10, 1894 (no. 4961), 



Parosela naviculifolia (Hemsley) Rose. 



Dalea navicaUf olia HemAey, Diag. PL Nov. 1:7. 1878, 



Parosela tuberculata (Lag.) Rose. 



Dalea ttiberculata Lag. Nov, Gen. & Sp. 23. 1816. 



Parosela pulchella (Moric. ) Heller. 



Parosela psoralioides (Moric.) Rose. 



Dalea psoralioides Moric. Mem. Geneve 6: 538. 1838. 



