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peduncles 1-3 cm. long; racemes 2-4 cm. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, 

 about 1 cm. long, long-silky, obscurely glandular-dotted; flowers subsessile, reflexed after an- 

 thesis; calyx long-silky; tube campanulate, 3 mm. long; lobes 8 mm. long; corolla reddish-pur- 

 ple; blade of the banner cordate, 3.5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, the claw 3 mm. long; blades of the 

 wings and keel-petals obliquely elliptic, with a rounded basal lobe; those of the wings 5 mm. long, 

 those of the keel-petals 8 mm. long, the claws 2.5 and 3 mm. long respectively; fruit silky. 

 Type collected in Sierra Madre [Sinaloa or Durango] by Berthold Seemann (Gray Herb.). 



41. Parosela longipila (B. L. Robinson) Rydberg, sp. nov. 



Dalea mollis var. ? A. Gray, PI. Wright. 1: 47. 1852. 

 Dalea mollis longipila B. L. Robinson, MS. in herb. 



A perennial, with rather slender root; stem branched at the base, decumbent or spreading, 

 1-2 dm. long, long- villous ; leaves 3-5 cm. long, spreading; stipules small, subulate; leaflets 

 9-13, elliptic, rounded at the apex, rather sparingly silky-villous with long hairs, conspicuously 

 glandular-punctate, 6-12 mm. long; peduncles opposite the leaves, 3-7 cm. long; racemes rather 

 dense, 2-3 cm. long; bracts narrowly lanceolate, gradually attentuate, not exceeding the caly- 

 ces; calyx long-silky; tube about 3 mm. long; lobes 4 mm. long; blade of the banner acutish- 

 cordate, 3.5 mm. long, yellowish-white, glandular-dotted near the base; wings yellowish-white, 

 the blades obliquely obcuneate-ovate, slightly retuse at the apex, with a rounded basal lobe, 

 4 mm. long, the claws 2 mm. long; keel-petals with a purple tip, the blades obliquely obovate, 

 with a rather large rounded basal lobe, with small glands at the base, 5 mm. long, the claw 3 

 mm. long; pod glabrous. 



Type collected in western Texas. October 1S49. Wright 126 (Gray Herb.). 

 Distribution: Western Texas, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas. 



42. Parosela pilosa Rydberg, sp. nov. 



A perennial, with a slender deep root ; stem branched from the base, decumbent or spread- 

 ing, long-villous, rather conspicuously glandular-dotted (somewhat pustulate), 1-3 dm. long; 

 leaves spreading, 2-3 cm. long; stipules subulate, 2-3 mm. long; petioles 3-5 mm. long; rachis 

 sparingly villous, glandular-dotted; leaflets 7-15, broadly obovate-cuneate or subobcordate, 

 4-8 mm. long, usually truncate or retuse at the apex, villous, conspicuously glandular-dotted 

 on the lower surface; peduncles opposite the leaves, 2-5 cm. long; racemes dense, 1.5-4 cm. 

 long; bracts linear-lanceolate, sparingly silky-villous, long-attenuate, glandular-dotted, ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, caducous; flowers short-pedicelled, reflexed in fruit; calyx-tube turbinate, 

 2-2.5 mm. long, strongly 10-ribbed, silky-pilose; lobes 3-4 mm. long; corolla rose-colored to 

 white and usually blotched with rose; blade of the banner broadly cordate, 3 mm. long, the 

 claw 1.5-2 mm. long; wings and keel-petals inserted below the middle of the staminal tube; 

 blades of the wings broadly oblong, usually retuse at the apex, 3 mm. long, those of the keel- 

 petals obliquely obovate, with a rounded basal lobe, 4 mm. long, the claws of both 1.5-2 mm. 

 long; pod villous. 



Type collected at Los Angeles Bay. Lower California, 1887, Palmer 550 (herb. Columbia Univ.). 

 Distribution: Southern California to Sonora and Lower California. 



43. Parosela mollissima Rydberg, sp. nov. 



Dalea mollis Brewer & Wats. Bot. Calif. 1: 141, mainly. 1876. Not D. mollis Benth. 1848. 



A perennial, with a deep root; stem branched at the base, spreading or ascending, 1-3 dm. 

 long, densely silky-pilose and glandular-dotted; leaves spreading, 2-4 cm. long; stipules subu- 

 late, minute; rachis silky-pilose and glandular-dotted; leaflets 11-15, cuneate, truncate or 

 retuse at the apex, 5-8 mm. long, sparingly pilose or glabrate above, densely so beneath, con- 

 spicuously glandular-dotted; peduncles short, usually less than 1 cm. long; racemes dense, 

 2-3 cm. or in fruit up to 5 cm. long; bracts and bractlets small but conspicuous, in age black; 

 bracts lanceolate, shorter than the calyx, densely pilose; calyx densely silky-villous; tube 3 

 mm. long, the lobes 4.5 mm. long; corolla pinkish or white, shorter than the calyx; blade of the 

 banner rounded-cordate, 2 mm. long, the claw 2 mm. long; blades of the wings and keel-petals 



