Senna pendula var. ovalifolia H. S. Irwin & Barneby

Adipera ovalifolia (Mart. & Gal.) Britton & Rose
Cassia ovalifolia Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. I0=: 305. 1843. Cassia Botleriana Benth. Trans. Linn. See. 27: 541. 1871.
A shrub, the branches, inflorescence and petioles softly and densely pubescent. Stipules linear, caducous ; leaflets 3 or 4 pairs, glabrous or soon glabrate on both sides, more or less ciliate, orbicular to short-oblong, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, rounded at apex; gland borne between the lower pair of leaflets, club-shaped, obtuse; racemes axillary, mostly longer than the leaves; pedicels vefy slender, 1-2 cm. long; sepals unequal, obtuse, 6-7 mm. long; petals 10-12 mm. long; stamens 7, four with sessile anthers and three on slender filaments with curved anthers, all beakless; ovary hairy; legume glabrous, terete or nearly so, 5-9 cm. long, stipitate.
Type locality: Mirador, Veracruz. Distribution : Veracruz.

Peiranisia botteriana (Benth.) Britton & Rose
Cassia Botteriana Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 541. 1871.
Branches pubescent. Stipules caducous; leaflets 3 pairs, obovate-oblong, glabrate, memliranous, 2-4 cm. long, the rachis bearing a gland between the lower pair; racemes axillary, many-flowered, as long as the leaves, or longer; sepals about 6 mm. long; petals about 12 mm. long, finely veined; anthers all beakless; legume linear, flat, 7-10 cm. long, 6-8 mm. wide, rather thick.
Type locality: Mount Orizaba, Veracruz. UisTRiBUTif>N: Known only from the type locality.

Adipera submontana Britton & Rose, sp. nov
A large shrub, glabrous or loosely pubescent. Stipules linear, 4-8 mm. long, caducous; rachis bearing a large black gland between the lower pair of leaflets and often between the second pair; leaflets 2-4 pairs, broadly elliptic to ovate, 3-6.5 cm. long, obtuse or acute, glabrous, or ciliate near the base; racemes axillary, 5-12 cm. long; bracts linear, 4-5 mm. long, scarious, caducous; pedicels 1-2 cm. long; sepals elliptic to orbicular, unequal, obtuse, the largest about 8 mm. long; petals 12-15 mm. long; stamens 7, three on long, slender filaments; anthers not beaked; legume stipitate, subterete, glabrous, 8-10 cm. long, about 8 mm. thick.
Zacuapam, Veracruz, February, 1924, C. A. Pur pus 100.