104 0ONTBIB! nON8 FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM, 



Parosela polyphylla Mart. A Gal R 



Dal Mart A Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 10 : n. L843, 



Parosela eitriodora (Willd. Rose. 



Dalea ■ i Willd. Sp. PI. 3: L339. L801. 



Parosela mueronata Di !, 



Dalea ronata'DC. Prod. 2: 246. L825. 



Parosela peetinata Kunth l: 



linata Kunth, Mimos. 169. pi. ','■>. L819. 



Parosela grayi Vail. 



Parosela acutifolia DC. I 



Parosela mutabilis (Cav. I: 



Parosela trochilina Brandegee I; 



Dalea trochilina Brandegee, Proc. Oal. Acad. II. 3:220. L892. 



Parosela hemsleyana Rose, -p. oov. 



A shrub with Qumeroua Long slender purplish branches closely set with glandular 

 knobs, glabrous; leaves -mall: Leaflets 9 to L5, 2 to ."> mm. Long, obtuse, glabrous on 

 both Bides, very glandular-dotted beneath; peduncles Blender; inflorescence a corn- 

 pad head; bracts broad; calyx silky, about 4 mm. Long, including the lobes; Lobes 

 about two-thinls the Length of the tube; corolla purplish. 



Type r. S. National Herbarium no. i'44:!»i. collected by Tarry and Palmer near 

 San Luis Potosf, L878 no. L54 . This is reported in the Biologia Centrali- Americana 

 as Dalea ramosissima Benth., from which 1 think it is abundantly distinct. P. ramo- 

 si88ima, a Lower Californian species, has recently been collected by Mr. Brandegee 

 and accord- with Bentham's original description and excellent ti'_Mirc Bentham's 

 name must give way to the older one of Martius and < raleotti. 



Parosela leucostachys i A. < .ray Rose. 



Dalea leuco8tachy8 A. Gray, PI- Fendl. 32. L848. 



Parosela lumholtzii Rob. & Fern. I Vail. 



Parosela eysenhardtioides I Elemsley I le>>e. 



Dalea eysenhardtioides Hemsley, Diag. PI. Nov. 1:6. i s 7s. 



Parosela oaxacana lfr>se, sp. nov. 



Shrubs, '•"> to L20 cm. high with many short ascending branches clothed with a 

 short Boft pubescence, each terminating in a short dense spike ot* purplish flowers; 

 Leaflets •'» t-' L5 pairs, narrowly oblong, <; to ».t mm. Long, pubescent on both sides 

 when young hut early glabrate, especially above, rounded at each end. apiculate, 

 paler beneath, thickly set with small glands; bracts ovate, acuminate; calyx hairy, 

 the tube not at all angled, slightly cleft on the upper side, the teeth much shorter 

 than the tube, darker-colored, ovate, acute, almost spiny-toothed. 



Type r. S. National Herbarium no. loi'.'is. collected by Dr. ('. G. Pringle on the 

 sierra de San Felipe, < »ax^a. altitude 2,250 meters, October L0, L894 no 



Parosela naviculifolia I Hem-ley | Rose. 



Dalea naviculifolia Hem-ley. Diag. PI. Nov. 1:7. L8 



Parosela tuberculata I. ag. 1>' 



Dalea tuberculata Lag. Nov. Gen. a- Sp. 23. L816. 



Parosela pulchella (Moric. ) Heller. 



Parosela psoralioides | Moric. i 



Dalea psoralioides Moric. Mem. Geneve (J: 533. is:;:; 



