Dalea carthagenensis var. capitulata (Rydb.) Barneby

Parosela capitulata Rydberg, sp. nov
A glabrous shrub; branches ascending, strict, purplish-brown, glandular-punctate; leaves about 2 cm. long, divaricate; stipules small, subulate; rachis glabrous, densely glandulardotted; stipels gland-like; leaflets 11-13, glabrous on both sides, densely glandular-dotted beneath, oblong, 3-4 mm. long; spikes capitate, sessile in the axils of the leaves; bracts ovate, acute, 2-3 mm. long, shorter than the calyx, sparingly pubescent and conspicuously glandular-punctate; calyx-tube sparingly hairy, 2 mm. long; lobes subulate, filiform, plumose, the lowest 4 mm. long, the rest about 3 mm. long; corolla when dry darkly brownish-purple; blade of the banner cordate, 3 mm. long, the claw 2 mm. long; blades of the wings obliquely elliptic, 3 mm. long, those of the keel-petals broadly obovate, with an acute reflexed basal lobe, 4 mm. long, the claws of both 2 mm. long.
Type collected in Oaxaca, December 8, 1901, Conzatti 6" Gonzalez 1262 (Gray Herbarium).

Parosela tehuacana Rydberg, sp. nov
A low shrub; branches glabrous, brown, glandular-dotted, the glands becoming almost white, conspicuous and lenticel-like in age; leaves spreading, 1-2 cm. long; stipules subulate; rachis glabrous or sparingly pubescent when young; leaflets obovate, 3-7 mm. long, slightly retuse or rounded, sparingly short-villous when young, soon glabrous, glandular-dotted beneath; stipels gland-like; spikes mostly axillary, subsessile, or the terminal ones short-peduncled, globose; bracts ovate, white-pilose and conspicuously glandular-dotted, short-acuminate; calyx-tube broadly campanulate, 10-ribbed, with a row of glands in most of the intervals, pilose, 2.5 mm. long; lobes plumose, filiform from a triangular base, the lowest one 4 mm. long, the rest 3 mm. long; corolla yellow, turning dark-purple, the petals usually with a large gland at the apex; blade of the banner cordate, 2 mm. long, the claw 1.5 mm. long; blades of the wings and keel-petals 3-4 mm. long, the claws 1 mm. long; pod villous and glandular above, naked below.
Type collected at Tehuacan, Puebla, November 7, 1903, Holway 53 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 472560).