Dalea scandens var. vulneraria (Oerst.) Barneby

Parosela vulneraria (Oerst.) Rydberg
Dalea vulneraria typica Oerst. Vidensk. Meddel. 1853: 4. 1853.
A shrub, 1 m. high or more; branches sparingly short-hairy, in age glabrate and lightbrown, sparingly glandular-dotted; leaves 2-5 cm. long; stipules filiform-subulate, 4—5 mm. long; rachis more or less villous, scarcely margined; stipels gland-like; leaflets 9-15, oval, rounded or retuse at the apex, 8-12 mm. long, villous on both sides, paler and glandular-dotted beneath; spikes short, 1-2 cm. long, mostly axillary and subsessile, terminal and often peduncled; bracts lance-ovate, acuminate, equaling or exceeding the calyx, deciduous, pubescent and with a few glands; calyx-tube broadly turbinate, nearly glabrous, 10-ribbed, 2 mm. long, the glands in the intervals long and usually confluent; lobes filiform from a triangular base, plumose, the lowest 3 mm. long, the rest 2 mm. long; corolla yellowish, turning purple; blade of the banner cordate-reniform, 2.5 mm. long, 3-3.5 mm. broad, the claw 2 mm. long; blades of the wings 3.5 mm. long, those of the keel-petals 4.5-5 mm. long; pod densely pilose above.
Type locality: Between Matagalpa and Chinotega, Segovia, Nicaragua. Distribution: Guatemala to Nicaragua.