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of the staminal tube, the blades fully 3.5 mm. long, the claws 1 mm. long; pod slightly pu- 

 berulent above. 



Type locality: Mexico. 

 Distribution: Oaxaca. 



93. Parosela Seemanni (S. Wats.) Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 10: 106. 1906. 



? Dalea Ehrenbergii Schlecht. Linnaea 12: 290. 1838. 

 Dalea Seemanni S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 470. 1887. 



A shrub, 5 dm. high or more; branches finely and densely short-pubescent and strongly 

 glandular- tuberculate; leaves 1-2 cm. long, spreading; stipules minute, subulate; petiole 2-5 cm. 

 long; rachis densely short-hairy; stipels gland-like; leaflets 7-11, cuneate-oblong or obovate, 

 obtuse, short-silky on both sides, conspicuously glandular-dotted beneath; peduncles termi- 

 nating the branches, 1-3 cm. long; spikes rather dense, 2-5 cm. long; bracts ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the buds, caducous, pubescent and glandular; calyx-tube 

 campanulate, long-villous, 3 mm. long; lobes deltoid-lanceolate, acuminate, about equaling 

 the tube; banner yellowish, the blade rounded-cordate, 3 mm. long, the claw 2 mm. long; wings 

 and keel purple, the blades of the wings 4 mm., those of the keel-petals 5 mm. long. 



Type locality: Sierra Madre, "probably Durango." 

 Distribution: Northern Lower California to Hidalgo. 



94. Parosela tuberculata (Lag.) Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 10: 104. 1906. 



Dalea tuberculata Lag. Gen. & Sp. Nov. 23. 1816. 



Parosela tuberculata Lag. Gen. & Sp. Nov. 23, as synonym. 1816. 



Dalea pendulina Moc. & Sesse; DC. Prodr. 2: 245, as synonym. 1825. 



Dalea thymoides Schlecht. Linnaea 5: 580. 1830. 



Dalea verrucosa G. Don, Gen. Hist. 2: 225. 1832. 



? Dalea comosa Schlecht. Linnaea 12: 289. 1838. 



Dalea Seemannii evillosa S. Wats, in herb. 



A shrub, 5 dm. high or more, copiously branched; branches densely short-pubescent and 

 conspicuously glandular- warty; leaves spreading, 1-2 cm. long; stipules subulate, 2-3 mm. 

 long; petiole 2-5 mm. long; rachis densely short-pubescent; leaflets usually 5-9, rarely 9-11, 

 oblong to obovate or cuneate, 4-8 mm. long, short-pubescent on both sides, or glabrate above, 

 conspicuously glandular-dotted beneath, rounded, or rarely retuse, and mucronate at the apex; 

 peduncles terminating the branches, 1-5 cm. long; spikes at first short and conic, in age be- 

 coming elongate and lax, 2-15 cm. long; bracts ovate, abruptly acuminate, glandular-punctate 

 and short- pubescent; calyx-tube broadly campanulate, brown, short pubescent, 3 mm. long; 

 lobes deltoid, acute, nearly half as long as the tube, the lower somewhat longer; banner yellow- 

 ish, the blade rounded-cordate, 4 mm. long, the claw 3 mm. long; wings and keel purple, the 

 blades of the wings 5 mm. long, those of the keel-petals 6 mm. long; pod short-pubescent. 



Type locality: Mexico. 



Distribution: Coahuila and Chihuahua to Mexico. 



95. Parosela canescens (Mart. & Gal.) Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 10: 105. 1906. 



Dalea canescens Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 10 2 : 43. 1843. 



A branched shrub, 1-2 m. high; branches more or less finely canescent and copiously 

 glandular-tubercled; leaves 1-2 cm. long; stipules subulate, 2-3 mm. long; petiole 4—6 mm. 

 long; rachis finely canescent and glandular-dotted; stipels gland-like; leaflets 3-7, obovate, 

 4—10 mm. long, rounded or retuse at the apex, more or less finely short-canescent and strongly 

 glandular-dotted beneath, appressed-silky or in age sometimes glabrate above; peduncles 

 terminating the branches, 1-4 cm. long; spike at first rather dense, in age more lax, 2-10 cm. 

 long; bracts lance-subulate, equaling or surpassing the calyx, acuminate, canescent; calyx- 

 tube broadly campanulate, 3 mm. long, densely short-pubescent with brown hairs; lobes deltoid, 

 acuminate, shorter than the tube; banner ochroleucous, the blade rounded-ovate, 3-4 mm. 



