(Plate LXXXIV)

Suffruticose becoming shrubby, up to 1.2 m tall, with castaneous, remotely (under the spikes more densely) verruculose stems, softly villous-villosulous throughout with extremely fine spreading-ascending and partly twisted hairs up to 0.65-1.1 mm long, the foliage gray-silky when young, later greenish, the thin-textured leaflets pubescent both sides, punctate beneath; leaf-spurs 0.7-1.5 mm long; stipules linear-setiform, firm, green becoming brownish, villosulous dorsally, (2) 3-6.5 mm long; intrapetiolular glands 2, setiform; post-petiolular glands small but prominent, sometimes concealed by vesture; leaves shortly petioled or subsessile, the main cauline ones 2-4.5 cm long, with 5-7 pairs of oblong-elliptic, short-acuminate, flat or mostly flat leaflets up to 7-14 mm long, the terminal one either short-stalked or sessile; peduncles (in material seen) mostly leaf-opposed, 5-9 cm long; spikes moderately dense, ovoid becoming oblong, without petals 11-12 mm diam, the calyces (pressed) mostly 3-4- ranked, not wholly concealing the villosulous axis, this becoming 2-6.5 cm long; bracts persistent, narrowly lance-acuminate, 4.5-7 mm long, in profile 0.7-0.9 mm wide shortly above base, firm except for a narrow scarious margin in the lower dorsally densely pilosulous but not strongly glandular, the tail 3-4 mm long; calyx 5.6-6.2 mm long, villosulous with fine spreading spiral hairs up to 1-1.2 mm long, the tube 2.8-3.3 mm long, the orifice oblique but not abruptly recessed behind banner, the filiform ribs livid, the membranous intervals charged with (3) 4-7, 1- or irregularly 2-ranked, small yellow glands, the unequal teeth lance-attenuate from a triangular base, the dorsal one 2.5-3 mm long (0.1-0.8 mm shorter than tube), the ventral pair shortest, all gland-spurred; petals bicolored, the whitish, basally blue-lobed, heavily gland-sprinkled banner rubescent in age, glabrous dorsally, the epistemonous ones blue, gland-tipped, perched ±1-2 mm from hypanthium; banner 6.7-7.6 mm long, the claw 4.2-4.6 mm, the ovate-suborbicular, emarginate, hooded blade 4.2-4.6 mm long, 4-4.4 mm wide; wings 6.7-7.6 mm long, the claw 2.4-2.7 mm, the ovate- oblong blade 5.2-5.7 mm long, 2.7-3 mm wide; keel 8.6-9.6 mm long, the claws 3-3.8 mm, the blades 5.5-6.3 mm long, 3.2 mm wide; androecium 10-merous, 9-10.5 mm long, the longer filaments free for 3-3.3 mm, the connective gland-tipped, the anthers 0.65-0.8 mm long; pod unknown. — Collections: 3 (o).

Brushy canyon slope, ± 2850 m, known only from the type-locality in the valley of upper Rio Huallaga in Pasco, Peru. — Flowering March to June, probably later. — Material: Pasco: Huariaca, Macbride 3108 (F). Peru, s. 1., Haenke 1722 in 1970 (NY).

Dalea fieldii (Macbr.) Macbr., Candollea 7: 222. 1937, based on Parosela fieldii (Capt. Marshall Field, sponsor of collectors in Peru) Macbr., Field Mus., Bot. 4: 111. 1927.— "Peru:... Huariaca, Dept, of Junin [now Pasco], April 3, 1923, Macbride 3117..." - Holotypus, F! isotypus, US!

A poorly known and poorly characterized species, differing from its compatriot relative D. weberbaueri var. weberbaueri in the longer pubescence of fine, weak hairs, in the longer and narrower stipules, bracts, and calyx-teeth, and in the larger leaflets of thinner texture. Macbride (1943) reduced it to D. sericophylla (= D. weberbaueri var. sericophylla), with which it shares the character of long narrow bracts, here interpreted as coincidental.