Dalea virgata Lag.

Parosela oaxacana Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb 10: 104. 1906.
A shrub, 1-2 m. high, with many ascending branches, finely and softly pubescent, often reddish; leaves spreading, 3-5 cm. long; stipules minute, subulate; petiole about 5 mm. long; rachis finely puberulent; stipels minute, subulate; leaflets 13-31, narrowly oblong, 6-9 mm. long, finely pubescent on both sides when young, glabrate especially above, rounded at each end, apiculate, paler and minutely glandular-dotted beneath; peduncles ending the branches, 1-5 cm. long; spikes dense, short, 1-3 cm. long, fully 1 cm. thick; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, puberulent, caducous; calyx-tube silky-pubescent, not strongly ribbed, campanulate, oblique, 3 mm. long; lobes lanceolate, acuminate, darker-colored, not half as long as the tube, the lowest the longest; corolla rose-purple; blade of the banner round-reniform, 5 mm. long and fully as broad, the claw 3.5 mm. long; blades of the wings oblique, oblong, truncate at the base, 5 mm. long, those of the keel-petals 6 mm. long, the claws of both 5 mm. long; pod sparingly pubescent above.
Type locality: Sierra de San Felipe, Oaxaca. Distribution: Oaxaca.

Parosela conzattii Rydberg, sp. nov
A low shrub; branches more or less warty, puberulent, spreading; leaves 2-3 cm. long; stipules subulate-filiform; rachis puberulent; stipels conic, gland-like; leaflets 17-31, linearoblong, 4-5 mm. long, glabrous above, puberulent and glandular-dotted beneath; spikes dense, short-peduncled at the ends of the branches, conic, about 2 cm. long; bracts ovate, acuminate, sparingly pubescent, except the tip, glandular-dotted, equaling the calyx; calyxtube pubescent, campanulate, 2 mm. long; lobes elongate-deltoid, 1 mm. long; corolla rose-purple; blade of the banner rounded-cordate, 3 mm. long, the claw 2 mm. long; blades of the wings 3 mm. long, those of the keel-petals 4.5 mm. long, their claws respectively 2 mm. and 3 mm. long.
Tvpe collected at Cerro San Antonio, Oaxaca, December 15, 1901, Conzalti (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 8653? 1).