1913] PARISH—CALIFORNIA PAROSELAS 313 
DiIsTRIBUTION.—At low altitudes in ef Colorado Desert, thence to 
adjacent Arizona, Sonora, and Lower Cali 
SP NS EXAMINED.—Colorado bea "soe A. W. ANTHONY; White- 
water, May 1904, R. G. SmitH; Palm Springs, June 1895, DAvipson, in full 
flower, and April 1907, PARIsH; Chuckawalla Bench, June 25, August 14, 1903, 
SCHELLENGER 2, 3; Indio, June 1880, PARISH 22; toward the foothills near 
Mecca, and in Red Cafion, abundant and in full bloom, June 28, 1912, PARISH 
8108. 
SPECIES INCERTA 
DALEA ARBORESCENS Torr. ex Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. II. 
5:316. 1885.—‘‘Much branched, almost glandless, subspines- 
cent; the adult branches glabrate, the younger, together with the 
leaves and the calyces, canescent-tomentose: leaflets 5, approxi- 
mate, obovate: flowers congested in a short dense spike; bracts 
small, subulate; the acuminate teeth of the calyx as long as the 
campanulate tube, the two upper oblong-triangular, the others 
narrowly lanceolate: petals (purple?) about equal. 
“*A small tree!’ Glands scarcely any, a few minute tubercular ones 
occasionally found on the branchlets when denuded of their dense woolly cover- 
ing. Leaves petioled, the leaflets only 2-3 lines long. Flowers 5-6 lines long; 
the calyx large in proportion, the tube obscurely striate. Vexillum obcordate.” 
The above is the original character, the first paragraph translated. The 
type is said to be from the “Mountains of San Fernando, a southern branch of 
the Sierra Nevada, California; April, Fremont.” This region is now well 
known, but no species of Parosela has been collected there; certainly it could 
hardly have escaped notice if a tree. The type specimen is a mere fragment, 
from which little can be learned. The condensed inflorescence indicates that 
it should be placed near Parosela polyadenia and P. Emoryi, where it was 
located by Watson in the Botany of California. 
SAN BERNARDINO, CAL. 
