Dalea purpusii Brandegee

Parosela purpusi (Brand.) Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat Herb. 10: 106. 1906.
Dalea formosa Brand. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 2: 147. 1890. Dalea Purpusi Brand. Rrythea 7: 2. 1899.
An intricately branched shrub, 3-4 dm. high; stem and branches slightly glandular-dotted and glabrous, or slightly strigulose when young, straw-colored in age; leaves 1-2 cm. long; stipules subulate, 1-2 mm. long; raehis strigose; stipels gland-like; leaflets 3-5, obovate, obtuse or retuse, 4-6 mm. long, strigose on both sides, conspicuously glandular-dotted beneath; spikes terminal, ovoid, about 1.5 cm. long; bracts ovate, deciduous, 5-6 mm. long, silky and sparingly glandular-dotted; calyx-tube campanulate, silky-pubescent, 2.5 mm. long, with yellow glands between the 10 prominent ribs; lobes filiform from a lanceolate base, 3.5-4 mm. long, plumose; corolla rose-colored or pink; blade of the banner broadly cordate, 3 mm. long; blades of the other petals obliquely obovate, 4-5 mm. long; pod silky pubescent, glandulardotted.
Type locality: Calmolli, Lower California.
Distribution: Lower California.