Marina maritima (Brandegee) Barneby

Parosela maritima (Brand.) Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb 8: 304. 1905.
Dalea maritima Brand. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 3: 125. 1891.
A suffruticose perennial; stem branching, nearly prostrate, densely and closely whitepubescent; leaves 2-3 cm. long; stipules small, subulate; petioles very short; rachis white-canescent; stipels minute, subulate; leaflets 15-23, densely canescent on both sides, sparingly glandular-punctate beneath, 3-4 mm. long, oblong-obovate, rounded or retuse at the apex; peduncles subopposite the leaves, 1.5-3 cm. long; racemes dense, 1-3 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, canescent; calyxtube turbinate, 2 mm. long, glabrous, strongly ribbed; lobes hirsute, the upper 4 lance-ovate, acute, shorter than the tube, the lowest one lanceolate and longer; corolla purple; blade of the banner subreniform, 2 mm. long and fully 3 mm. broad, the claw nearly 2 mm. long; wings and keel-petals inserted towards the base of the staminal tube; blades of the wings 4 mm. long, those of the keel-petals 5 mm. long, the claws of both 2 mm. long; pod broadly obliquely obovate, glabrous, conspicuously glandular-dotted.
Type locality: Todos Santos. Lower California. Distribution: Cape region of Lower California.