Dalea tomentosa var. psoraleoides (Moric.) Barneby

Parosela psoraleoides (Moric.) Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb 10: 104. 1906.
Dalea verbenacea sericea Schleeht. Linnaea 5: 579. 1830. Dalea psoraleoides Moric. M6m. Soc. Geneve 6: 533. 1833. Dalea mdcanicola Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 56: 52. 1913.
A shrub, 5-12 dm. high; stem erect, branched above, very leafy; branches densely villous, not glandular-tubercled ; leaves 1-2 cm. long; stipules subulate, about 5 mm. long; petiole 3-5 mm. long; rachis white-villous; leaflets 5-9, oblong-obovate or elliptic, mucronatecuspidate. 5-10 mm. long, densely white-silky on both sides; spikes sessile or short-peduncled, dense, cylindric, 1-4 cm. long, 8 mm. thick; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, sericeous longer than the buds, persistent; calyx-tube campanulate, fully 2 mm. long more or less villous, 10-ribbed; lobes lance-subulate, the lower somewhat shorter than the calyx, the rest half as long; banner yellowish, the blade ovate, 2 mm. long, a little shorcer than the claw; wings and keel light-pink at first, turning yellowish, the blades 2-2.5 mm. long, the claws 1.5 mm. long; pod hairy at the summit.
Type locality: Near Cuernavaca, Morelos. Distribution: Veracruz to Jalisco and Guatemala.