Senna galeottiana (M. Martens) H. S. Irwin & Barneby

Pterocassia galeottiana (Martens) Britton & Rose
Cassia Galeottiana Martens, Bull. Acad. Bnix. 10^: 305. 1843.
A shrub or small tree, 2-4.5 m. high, much branched, the twigs, petioles and peduncles densely villous. Leaves about 5 cm. long, or shorter; leaflets 3-8 pairs, elliptic to obovate, 5-10 mm. long, rounded or rctuse, subcoriaceoiis, glabrous on both sides or villous on the veins beneath ; racemes few-several-flowered, 4-6 cm. long; bracts ovate to lanceolate, pubescent, 5-6 mm. long; pedicels slender, 1-1.5 cm. long; sepals ovate to elliptic, the larger about 8 mm. long; petals 9-12 mm. long; legume short-stipitate, 4-9 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. wide, glabrous, its wings 1.5-3 mm. wide.
Type locality: Tehuacan, Puebla. Distribution: Puebla and Oaxaca.