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semble those of some Eryngiums. I am not sure if any Species in 
Asia belongs to Tenais, but all those we have received from Sierra 
Leone and the Guinea Coast do; and one of them, Crinum Giganteum 
of the Botanist's Repository was prie apa called, owing to the 
blunder of a Scotch Gardener, as it is by no means a very ndr Plant; 
but a little before it was first figured by Tuowrsow in 1798, I had 
of the Sierra Leone Plants given to them by the Marea for a 
young sucker of that from Port Jackson, and told them it was so 
:alled, transforming by his Northern pronounciation Gigas into Ja- 
gus, in which latter way the name is printed in thè work above 
SERNER Magris ards when the figure of the Botanist’s Repository 
cam 
, Mr. KexNEDY changed Jagus into Giganteu maryllis 
ae L. rrr. is a species of Tænais very distinct from all those in 
troduced s, or Francesco Boro now lost 
here, for I have not seen it, left Chapel Allerton; my B 
from the identical plant described by the younger Lixw£, and though 
it continued healthy, flowering annually till I left that place, I never 
could get a Seed from it or more than 2 Offsets in all that 
this Species grows wild near Cape — so erroneously calle Cape 
Coast by our English sailors, and may be known ; 
equal to Mr. KrxxgpY' 8 Giganteum, the Leaves of a pale yellowish 
ase 
surfaces; 2ndly, its flowers have a disagreeably sweetish smell, are 
of shin rassis in my plant being constantly 4 or 6 in number, 
of which expanded one day, the other half the next; 3rdly, the 
inside of its Tube has 6 — hollows between the bases of the Fila- 
ments, and the bis m more ventricose on the lower side; 
thly, the points of its Petals decay at a very early period, while 
cohering in the Flowerbud some days before they separate. Enret’s 
eylanicum is more like Ornata L. rr. than any other, and I believe 
to have been delineated from it, though eoloured with too bri 
tints, which was Enrer’s only fault. No less than four different 
Plants have at one time or other been confounded by LrxwÉ under 
his Crinum Zeylanicum: the 1st above described, which his nes itae 
when he was here in the Marquis of Rocxtnenaw’s collection at 
Wimbledon, and separated by that name: the 2nd is Tolaba ven 
Tolabo minor) of the Cingalese, figured in CowwEnIN's Hort. Ams 
w i E 73. at us this belongs to I cannot say, it sees 
having been introduced here to my knowledge, though it m may 
among those lately sent by Dr. Warrick; its Leaves, which I only 
know from a specimen in the Banksian Herbarium sent from Am- 
