144 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [avousr 
pairs, oblong, 8 to 15™™ long, green above and with scattered hairs, 
densely cinereous beneath, rounded and mucronate at tip: infloresence 
short and compact, not much exceeding the leaves: calyx lobes narrow: 
corolla purplish, the banner 15™™ long: ovary very hairy; pods (imma- 
ture) 4°™ long. 
Collected by C. G. Pringle on hills of Las Sedas, Oaxaca, July 22, 1897 
(no. 6741). 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium. 
Parosela mutabilis (Cav.) Rose.—Psoralea mutabilis Cav. Ic. 4:65. pl. 
394. 1797. Dalea mutabilis Willd. Sp. Pl. 3:1339. 180r. 
Parosela acutifolia (DC.) Rose.—Dalea acutijolia DC. Prod. 2:245. 
1825. 
Parosela uncifera (Schlecht. & Cham.) Rose.—Dalea uncifera Schlecht. 
& Cham. Linnaea §:580. 1830. 
Parosela triphylla (Pavon) Rose.—Dalea triphylla Pavon, Linnaea 
12:289. 1838. 
Parosela procumbens (DC.) Rose.—Dalea procumbens DC. Prod. 2: 
246. 1825. 
Meibomia (HETEROLOMA) Metcalfii Rose & Painter, sp. nov—Her 
baceous, erect with ascending, striate branches: leaves trifoliolate, nal- 
rowly ovate-lanceolate, 3 to 5°“™ long, 0.6 to 1.5°™ wide, obtuse at base, acu 
at apex, margins revolute, upper surface sparsely hirsute with short hairs, 
dark green, under surface lighter green and glabrous, veins more prominent 
below than above; petioles angled, of lower leaves 3°%™ long, of og 
leaves nearly wanting; stipules deciduous: inflorescence in open panicles 
its tacemes terminal and lateral: flowers small, on pubescent pedicels; 
bracts acuminate, pubescent, early deciduous: calyx purplish, of 5 uned! 
teeth: corolla small, purplish: ovary pubescent, stipitate; loment decidedly 
stalked, of 2 to 5 joints, these much longer than broad and covered with 
uncinate hairs. 
Collected by Mr. O. B. Metcalf in the Black Range, Animas Creek, 6 
County, New Mexico, on ditch banks, altitude 1,500", July 13, 1904 (no. er 
A species with the aspect of M. paniculata (L.) Kuntze, but more closely 
related to M. Lindheimeri Vail. 
Meibomia (HrTrRoLoma) pinetorum Rose & Painter, sp- 7 
baceous, stem glabrous, trailing, r to 2™ long, with ascending branches: 
leaves trifoliolate; leaflets 1 to 3-5 long, 1 to 3°™ wide, thin, broadly 
ov— i 
oval, obtuse and mucronate at apex, very sparingly 
surface with scattered appressed hairs, the lower surface lighter # 
with the primary veins prominent, covered with fewer scattered appr 
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hirsute on the we... 
