Dalea zimapanica S. Schauer

Parosela zimapanica (S. Schauer) Rydberg
Dalea microphylla Schlecht. Linnaea 12: 296. 1838. Not D. microphylla H.B.K. 1823.*
Dalea zimapanica S. Schauer, Linnaea 20: 746. 1857.
Parosela microphylla Rose, Contr. U. S. Herb. 10: 106, in part. 1906.
Dalea adenophylla Moric. MS., in herb.
A shrub, 1-3 m. high, often much branched; branches glabrous, terete; leaves 2-5 cm. long, spreading; stipules subulate, 2 mm. long; petiole 2-5 mm. long; rachis rather thick, glabrous, slightly glandular-dotted; stipels gland-like; leaflets 11-19, somewhat fleshy, 2-6 mm. long, elliptic or oblong, rounded to acutish at the apex, glabrous on both sides, glandular-dotted beneath; peduncles terminal, 1-3 cm. long; spikes short, subglobose or oblong, 1.5-3 cm. long, 12-15 mm. thick; bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or somewhat acuminate, glabrous and conspicuously glandular-dotted on the back, ciliate at the base and on and near the margins, about equaling the calyx; calyx-tube turbinate, 2.5 mm. long, silkyvillous, with yellow glands between the 10 ribs; lobes subulate-filiform from a broad base, slightly longer than the tube; corolla yellow, fading purplish-brown or brownish-rose-colored; blade of the banner 3 mm. long, rounded-cordate; wings and keel-petals each with a gland near the apex, the blades of the wings obliquely elliptic, with a large basal lobe, 5 mm. long, those of the keel-petals obliquely obovate, 6 mm. long, the claws of both 3 mm. long; pod villous.
Type locality: In the neighborhood of Zimapan [Hidalgo].
Distribution: Southern Mexico.

Parosela diversicolor Rydberg, sp. nov
A shrub, 1 m. high or more; branches glabrous, very sparingly glandular-dotted; leaves ascending, 3-7 cm. long, ascending; stipules subulate; rachis glabrous, glandless except the gland-like stipels; leaflets 13-35, oblong, glabrous, 7-9 mm. long, glandular-dotted beneath; peduncles terminal, 2-5 cm. long; spikes dense, short, 1-2 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, conspicuously glandular-dotted, glabrous except the ciliate margins; calyx-tube turbinate, 3 mm. long, silkyvillous, 10-ribbed, with yellow glands between the ribs; lobes filiform from a triangular base, plumose, 5 mm. long; corolla yellow, turning rose and purple; blade of the banner round-cordate, 4 mm. long, the claw 4 mm. long; blades of the wings 6-7 mm. long, those of the keel-petals 7-8 mm. long, the claws of both 4 mm. long; pod silky villous.
Type collected in Sierra de Clevellinas, State of Oaxaca, October 1894, Charles L. Smith 549 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 312833).