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5. TrOCHILUS ( ?) FLORICEPS. 



Forehead buffy white, passing into a beautiful deep peach-blossom 

 hue on the crown ; throat grey, passing into the rufous of the abdo- 

 men ; middle tail-feathers bronzy ; lateral tail-feathers largely tipped 

 with buff. 



Total length, 3^ inches ; bill, -^ ; wing, l-J ; tail, 1^^. 



Hab. Sierra Nevada of Santa Martha, at an elevation of 5000 feet. 



LINNiEAN SOCIETY. 



February 7, 1854. — Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Read a " Notice on the Characters and Synonyms of the genus 

 Senna." By M. J. B. Battka, of Prague. Communicated by G. 

 Bentham, Esq., F.L.S. 



The following are the characters by which M. Battka distinguishes 

 the genus : — 



Senna, Breyn. Prodr. ii. p. 59; Tourn. Inst. p. 390; Gcertn. Carp. ii. 

 p. 312. t. 146. 



Calyx 5-sepalus. Petala 5, inaequalia. Filamenta longiora incurva. 

 Anther cB 2-porosae, 10, supremae 3 steriles, infimae 3 radiatae. Stigma 

 centrale. Legumen membranaceum, oblongum v. reniforme, latum, 

 foliaceum, plano-compressum, bivalve, pluriloculare, dissepimentis 

 transversalibus ; loculis monospermis, non pulposis, ad sedes seminum 

 torulosis. Semina albuminosa, rostellata, ad suturam superam legu- 

 minis hilo funiculis strictis longioribus affixa, test^ carnosa, matura 

 et siccata subcordata rugulosa v. scrobiculata, margine hilo et micro- 

 pyle callosa, appendicula (loco deficientis plumulae) lirello-cochleaii- 

 formiornata; cotyledones foliaceae, trinerves; radicula recta; plumula 

 nulla. 



Under the head of " Petioli eglandulosi ; foliola obliqua," M. 

 Battka enumerates four species, — S. obovata, S. acutifolia, S. an- 

 gustifolia, and S. tomentosa, of which he gives the following cha- 

 racters and synonymy : — 



1. Senna obovata, foliis 3-6-jugis ; foliolis obovatis vel retuso-obovatis 

 mucronulatis basi angustioribus, stipulis petiolorum lanceolata-lineari- 

 bus, leguminibus arcuatis supra seminum sedem verticaliter interrupte 

 cristatis. 



Senna, Math. Com. 571 ; Fuchs. Hist. 447 (1542); Dod. Pempt. 360; 

 Trag. Hist. St. 964 ; Cam. Epit. 538 ; Loh. Adv. 406 ; Dalech. Lugd. 218 ; 

 Burm. Ind. tab. 33. fig. 2. 



S. florentina, Bauh. Hist. p. 377 (excl. ram.) ; Chabr. Sciag. 81 et 611. 



S. nostras, Cees. pi. 6. c. 34. p. 249. 



S. foliis obtusis, Ger. Hist. 1297. ic. 



S. Espanol, Solio, Diss. Mad. 1774, c. ic. 



S. Italica, C. Bauh. Pin. 397; Park. Theat. 225; Tournef. Inst. 618; 

 Ray, Hist. 1742; Sloane, Hist. Jam. 2. p. 47; Moris. Hist. ii. p. 201. 

 tab. 24. fig. 2; Breyn. Prod. 2. p. 90; Tabern. Ic. 903; Cam. Hort. 

 m. 159 ; Miller, Diet. n. 2. 



S. officinalis, Gcertn. tab. 146. fig. 4. 



S. hermol, C. B. 



Sen6 de Tripoli, Pomet, Hist. d. Drogues, Uebersetz. 1717, p. 180. 



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