Downy Prairie Clover

Parosela neomexicana (A. Gray) A. Heller, Cat. N. Am. PI
ed. 2. 6. 1900.
Dalea mollis ? tieo-mexicana A. Gray, PI. Wright. 1: 47. 1852.
A perennial, with a slender root; stem branched from the base, decumbent or prostrate, 1-2 cm. long, densely short-villous, almost velutinous; leaves 1.5-3 cm. long; stipules subulate, minute; petioles 3-6 mm. long; rachis densly short-villous; leaflets 7-11, obovate, retuse, densely villous, glandular-dotted, 3-S mm. long; peduncles opposite the leaves, 2-3 mm. long; racemes dense, 1-2 cm. long; bracts narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, scarcely longer than the calyx, Iong-villous; calyx-tube turbinate, strongly 10-ribbed, densely silky-villous, 3 mm. long; lobes about 5 mm. long; corolla mostly yellowish with purpleor rose-tinged keel, rarely rosecolored; blade of the banner broadly cordate, 3.5 mm. long, acute conspicuously glandulardotted towards the base, equaling the claw; blades of the wings obliquely obcuneate-ovate, acutish, with a rounded basal lobe, 3.5-4 mm. long, those of the keel-petals broadly obovate, with a rounded basal lobe, 4 mm. long, the claws of both 2-3 mm. long; pod villous.
Type locality: Hills west of the Pecos, Texas.
Distribution: Western Texas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas.