Part 1, 1919] FABACEAE: PSORALEAE 55 



13. Parosela maritima (Brand.) Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 8: 304. 1905. 



Dalea maritima Brand. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 3: 125. 1891. 



A suffruticose perennial; stem branching, nearly prostrate, densely and closely white- 

 pubescent; leaves 2-3 cm. long; stipules small, subulate; petioles very short; rachis white-ca- 

 nescent; stipels minute, subulate; leaflets 15-23, densely canescent on both sides, sparingly 

 glandular-punctate beneath, 3-4 mm. long, oblong-obovate, rounded or retuse at the apex; pe- 

 duncles subopposite the leaves, 1.5-3 cm. long; racemes dense, 1-3 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, 

 caudate-acuminate, canescent; calyx- tube turbinate, 2 mm. long, glabrous, strongly ribbed; 

 lobes hirsute, the upper 4 lance-ovate, acute, shorter than the tube, the lowest one lanceolate 

 and longer; corolla purple; blade of the banner subreniform, 2 mm. long and fully 3 mm. broad, 

 the claw nearly 2 mm. long; wings and keel-petals inserted towards the base of the staminal 

 tube; blades of the wings 4 mm. long, those of the keel-petals 5 mm. long, the claws of both 2 

 mm. long; pod broadly obliquely obovate, glabrous, conspicuously glandular-dotted. 



Type locality: Todos Santos. Lower California. 

 Distribution: Cape region of Lower California. 



14. Parosela minor Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 305. 1905. 



Dalea minor Brand. Zoe 5: 201. 1915. 



A decumbent perennial, branched at the base; stems slender, glabrous, reddish, incon- 

 spicuously punctate, 3-6 dm. long; leaves 3-6 cm. long; stipules setaceous, 2-3 mm. long; 

 petioles 3-5 mm. long; rachis glabrous; stipels minute, subulate; leaflets 21-41, glabrous, ob- 

 long, 2-4 mm. long, rounded or retuse at the apex, thin, glandular-dotted beneath; peduncles 

 3-5 cm. long, glabrous or nearly so; racemes 3-6 cm. long, lax; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 

 tardily deciduous, ciliate; calyx-tube turbinate, strongly 10-ribbed, glabrous, 2 mm. long; 

 lobes lanceolate, acute, the upper 4 about equaling the tube, the lowest one longer; corolla 

 violet; blade of the banner reniform, 3 mm. long and 4 mm. broad, the claw 2 mm. long; wings 

 and keel-petals inserted towards the base of the staminal tube, the blades of the former 4 mm. 

 long, those of the latter 5-6 mm. long; pod obliquely obovate, glabrous, conspicuously glandular- 

 punctate. 



Type locality: Lodiego, Sinaloa. 

 Distribution: Sinaloa. 



15. Parosela variegata Rydberg, sp. nov. 

 A shrub, 5 dm. high or more, divaricately branched; branches reddish or purplish, more or 

 less glaucous, glabrous, densely but minutely glandular-dotted; leaves 2-4 cm. long, spreading; 

 stipules subulate, minute; rachis glabrous, glandular-dotted; stipels conic, gland-like; leaflets 

 19-25, elliptic, retuse at the apex, 3-4 mm. long, glabrous, conspicuously glandular-dotted 

 beneath; peduncles opposite the leaves, 3-5 cm. long; racemes 3-6 cm. long; bracts glabrous, 

 narrowly lanceolate, attenuate, deciduous; pedicels 1 mm. long or less; calyx-tube turbinate, 

 2 mm. long, strongly 10-ribbed, with small glands between the ribs; upper 4 lobes ovate, acute, 

 1 mm. long, the lowest one lanceolate, 1.5 mm. long; corolla variegated; blade of the banner 

 reniform, with a yellowish glandular-dotted center, shading off into white towards the apex 

 and blue on the sides, 1 .5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide; wings and keel-petals mostly blue on the upper 

 edge and shading into rose and white below; blades of the former 3 mm. long, those of the latter 

 5-6 mm. long; pod glabrous, conspicuously glandular-dotted. 



Type collected at San Jose del Cabo, Lower California, October 24, 1902, T. S. Brandegee 

 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 397953). 



Distribution: Type locality and vicinity. 



16. Parosela divaricata (Benth.) Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 

 305. 1905. 



Dalea divaricata Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 12. 1844. 



An annual, according to the original description, but apparently perennial, and somewhat 

 woody, diffusely branched from the base; stems glabrous, brownish, decidedly glandular- 



