1913] PARISH—CALIFORNIA PAROSELAS 305 
TypE.—“ Gravelly hills near Ft. Mohave, Dr. J. G. Cooper, and lower 
down on the Colorado, near tl uth of the Williams River, Dr. C. C. Parry.” 
DISTRIBUTION.—Lower Sonoran of the Colorado Desert, thence to Arizona 
(PurPus 8507) and adjacent Mexico (PALMER) and Lower California (BRANDE- 
GEE). 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.—Thermal, May 1903, DAvimson; Mammoth 
Tank, March 17, 1882, PARISH 1180; Cafion Springs Wash, February 25, 
1904, SCHELLENGER 63; Cane Spring, April 1905, Hatt 5846; Chuckawalla 
Bench, December 1906, SCHELLENGER 95; Palo Verde, April 1905, HALt 
5975; Virginia Dale, May 1905, HALL 6041. 
Parosela Orcuttii, comb. nov.—Dalea Orcuttii Wats., Proc. Am. Acad. 
20:359. 1885, a species of adjacent Lower California, may be looked for near 
the boundary. It resembles P. Parryi, but the stems are not glandular- 
dotted, and the corolla is but little longer than the calyx teeth. 
Tt Flowers in condensed spikes which are sessile at the ends of branch- 
lets, the rachises deciduous, leaving the branchlets as a subspinose 
armament; calyx teeth similar, or nearly so. Shrubs, even the 
old wood glandular 
3. PAROSELA POLYADENIA (Torr.) Heller, Cat. N. Am. PI. 
ed. 2. 6. 1900.—Dalea polyadenia Torr. ex Wats., Geol. Expl. goth 
Par. 5:64. pl. 9. 1871.—Shrub 5-10 dm. tall, sparsely spinose, 
the short and stout divaricate branches canescent with a dense 
pannose tomentum, and copiously dotted with large yellow or red 
guttate glands: leaves on short petioles, 1-2 cm. long; leaflets 
5-II, ovate, 1-5 mm. long, tomentose and sparsely glandular; 
flowers numerous; spikes globose or oblong; calyx villous and 
glandular-dotted, 3.5-4 mm. Jong; teeth subulate from a broad 
base, nearly as long as the tube; petals rose-pink or purple, each 
usually with a small gland at the apex, rarely somewhat bearded, 
3.5 mm. long, little exceeding the calyx teeth: pod 3-5 mm. long, 
pubescent above. 
Type.— Borders of the Truckee Desert, Nevada.” 
DistTRIBUTION.—Inyo County, thence into Nevada (Wadsworth, KENNEDY, 
Candelaria, SHocKLEY 275). 
PECIMENS EXAMINED.—Owens Valley, PURPUS 1960. 
PAROSELA POLYADENIA (Torr.) var. subnuda, comb. nov.— 
Dalea polyadenia Torr. var. subnuda Wats., Bot. Cal. 23441. 1880. 
—Glabrous or nearly so; calyx glabrous and glandular-dotted, the 
teeth villous-ciliate. 
