Dalea eriophylla S. Watson

Parosela eriophylla (S. Wats.) Rose, Contr. U. S Nat. Herb. 10: 106. 1906.
Dalea eriophylla S. Wats. Prod. Am. Acad. 17: 340. 1882.
A dwarf shrub, 1-2 dm. high or less, much branched, very leafy; branches tomentose; leaves less than 1 cm. long; stipules subulate, 1 mm. long; leaflets 3, oblong or obovate-oblong, about 3 mm. long, thick, densely white-villous; spikes sessile, head-like; bracts ovate to spatulate, acute, densely villous; calyx-tube broadly turbinate, 2 mm. long, densely villous, 10ribbed; lobes subulate-filiform, 2.5 mm. long; corolla rose-colored; petals often with a gland near the apex; blade of the banner round-cordate, 3 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, with many small glands in 2 irregular semicircles, the claw 2.5 mm. long; blades of the wings 4-4.5 mm. long, those of the keel-petals 5 mm. long, the claws of both 1.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Sierra Madre, 40 miles south of Saltillo.
Distribution: Coahuila.