Marina spiciformis (Rose) Barneby

Parosela spiciformis Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 303
1905.
A branched annual; stem 2-3 dm. high, glabrous up to the inflorescence, purplish; leaves many, glabrous, 3-5 cm. long; stipules subulate, about 5 mm. long; petioles 5-8 mm. long; leaflets 5-9, glabrous, elliptic or oval, or the terminal one obovate, 6-15 mm. long, sinuately crenulate, with a gland in each sinus, and minutely glandular-punctate beneath; peduncles terminating the branches, 1-4 cm. long, crisp-hairy and distinctly glandular-dotted; racemes dense, spike-like, 2-3 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 3-4 mm. long, with a few glands; pedicels very short; calyx-tube turbinate, strongly 10-ribbed, sparingly crisp-hairy; lobes ovatelanceolate, green and purple-tipped, about as long as the tube, obtuse, except the lowest one, which is slightly longer and acute; corolla dark-purple; blade of the banner suborbicular, 2 mm. long, the claw about 1 mm. long; wings and keel-petals inserted slightly below the middle of the staminal tube, the blades about 3 mm. long; pod included in the calyx.
Type locality: Iguala, Guerrero. Distribution: Guerrero.