Dalea dorycnoides DC.

Parosela dorycnoides (DC.) Rydberg
Dalea dorychnoidcs DC. Prodr. 2: 245. 1825.
Dalea pulchella Moric Mem. Soc Geneve 7: 249. 1836. Not D. pulchella G. Don, 1832.
? Dalea argentea Mart. Del. Sem. Hort. Monac 1846. — Walp. Ann. 1: 228. 1848. Not D. argenlea
G. Don, 1832. Parosela pulchella A. Heller, Cat. N. Am. PI. ed. 2. 6. 1900.
A shrub, 5 dm. high or more; branches finely grayish-tomentose and more or less prominently glandulartuberculate; leaves 1-1.5 cm. long, spreading; stipules subulate, 2-3 mm. long; petiole 3-4 mm. long; rachis finely tomentose; stipels gland-like; leaflets 5-7, obovate, retuse at the apex, 3-8 mm. long, densely and appressed silky-canescent; peduncles terminating the branches, 1-3 cm. long; spikes dense, head-like, 1-1.5 cm., rarely 2 cm., long; bracts broadly obovate, abruptly short-acuminate, tomentose, shorter than the calyx, persistent; calyx-tube broadly campanulate, oblique, 2 mm. long, white-villous; lobes deltoid, more than half as long as the tube, the lowest one narrower and almost equaling the tube; banner ochroleucous, the blade rounded, 3 mm. long, the claw 2 mm. long; wings and keel-petals purple, the blades obliquely obovate, with a small basal lobe, 5 mm. long, those of the keel-petals united along the lower edge*, the claws 2 mm. long; pod pubescent.
TypiS locality: Tropical America.
Distribution: San Luis Potosi to Hidalgo.

Parosela decora (S. Schauer) Rydberg
Dalea decora S. Schauer, I.innaea 20: 743. 1847.
A shrub, 3-10 dm. high, virgately paniculately branched; branches finely tomentosecanescent and glandular-tubercled; leaves numerous, spreading, about 1 cm. long; stipules subulate, small; petiole very short, tomentose; stipels subulate; leaflets 3-7, obovate-cuneate to oblong, obtuse or retuse, 2-5 mm. long, villous-tomentose, glandular-dotted on both sides, but less so above; peduncles terminating the branches, very short; spikes short and dense, head-like, 1-1.5 cm. long; bracts persistent, broadly obovate, abruptly acuminate, shorter than the calyx, tomentose ; calyx-tube broadly campanulate, 2.5 mm. long, densely whitevillous; lobes deltoid, shorter than the tube, acute; banner white or ochroleucous, the blade roundreniform, 4 mm. long and 5 mm. broad; wings and keel-petals inserted far below the middle of the staminal tube, purple, the blades 5 mm. long, the claws 2 mm. long; pod pubescent.
Type locality: State of Oaxaca.
Distribution: Oaxaca.