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306 ° BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 
Type.—‘Owens Valley (Dr. W. MATTHEWS); Southern Utah (W. Joun- 
SON).” 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.—Mono County, July 1888, Mrs. J. H. HARcouRT; 
Owens Valley, S. W. Austin 171; Owenyo, June 1911, DAvipson. 
4. PAROSELA Emorvt (Gray) Heller, Cat. N. Am. Pl. ed. 2. 6. 
1900.—Dalea Emoryi Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. II. 5:315. 1855; 
Torr. Pac. R.R. Rep. 5:360. pl. 2.—Shrub 1-2 m. high, destitute of 
true spines, the numerous slender intricate branches hoary pubes- 
cent and sprinkled with small brown or red prickle-shaped glands: 
leaves 1-9 cm. long, pubescent and sparsely glandular; leaflets 
3-13, the terminal one usually narrower and longer than the lateral, 
rarely a few of the uppermost simple: flowers 10-20; spike globose, 
I—2 cm. in diameter; calyx silky villous, 6 mm. long, colored orange 
by the abundant minute subulate glands; teeth linear, as long as 
the tube; corolla bright purple, little exceeding the calyx teeth; 
petals nearly equal, about 4 mm. long: pod 3 mm. long, dotted with 
red glands. 
Typr.—‘On the desert tablelands of the Gila, 1852.” 
DisTRIBUTION.—Lower Sonoran of the Colorado Desert, thence into 
adjacent Arizona, and throughout Lower California to La Paz (BRANDEGEE 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.—Palm Springs, April 1882, April 18, 1896, April 
23, 1907, PARISH 93, 412, 6106; April 10, 1893, DAVIDSON; 1902, F. GILMAN; 
May 1894, L. D. Copetanp; April 20, 1906, GRANT; May 22, 1911, O. F. 
SELLIG; July 25-August 14, SCHELLENGER; Indio, May 8, 1903, JONES; 
McCoy Wash, April 1905, HALL 5946; Borregos Spring, April 19, 1906, JONES; 
abundant toward the foothills, Mecca, June 28, 1912, PARISH 8133; Old Beach, 
near Holtville, both above and below sea-level, June 30, 1912, PARISH 8088. 
** Ovules 2, collateral; pod glandular-dotted, exseried; the dead 
rachises persisting as a spinelike armament. Shrubs, the 
mature wood glabrous and glandless 
| Flowers sessile, or nearly so, in open spikes; calyx teeth dissimilar, 
the lower one narrower and mostly longer than the upper pair; 
leaves pinnate, or a few of the uppermost simple 
5. Parosela neglecta, n. sp.—Dalea arborescens Parish, Zoe 
42341. 1894, non TORREY.—Frutex subspinescens, 1-1.5 m. altus, 
caulibus junioribus tomentosis, cum glandulis parvis subulatis 
instructis; foliolis 3-7 oblongis vel obovatis sub tomento canes- 
cente obscure glandulosis; spicis 7—15-floris; calyce villoso minute 
glandulosoque, 8-9 mm. longo, tubo valde nervoso dentes aequante, 
