Marina minutiflora (Rose) Barneby

Parosela minutiflora Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 306 1905.
A delicate annual; stem diffusely branched, glabrous, purplish, minutely glandular-punctate, 2-4 dm. high; leaves 1-2 cm. long; stipules subulate, glandular-cilia te at the base; petioles 1-3 mm. long; rachis glabrous, conspicuously wing-margined; leaflets 13-29, oblong or linearoblong, 3-7 mm. long, truncate or retuse at the apex, glabrous on both sides, somewhat crenulate, glandular along the margins and sparingly so on the lower surface; stipels gland-like; peduncles terminating the branches, 1 cm. long; racemes lax, 2-4-flowered; bracts glabrous, obovate, short-acuminate, caducous; calyx-tube broadly turbinate, strongly 10-ribbed, 1.5 mm. long; lobes ovate, acute, the lowest slightly longer, all shorter than the tube; corolla purple; blade of the banner suborbicular, sinuate, 1.5 mm. long, the claw 1 mm. long; wings and keel-petals inserted near the middle of the staminal tube, the blades broadly obovate, slightly lobed at the base, 2.5-3 mm. long; pod glabrous, glandular-dotted.
Type locality: Yautepec, Morelos. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.