Baccharum. — TRIANDAIA BIGYNIA: 239 
„A native of the interior, elevated, dry parts of the Coromandelcoast; 
Culms straight, from six to twenty-four inches high, smooth.— 
Leaves long, slender, somewhat scabrous ; mouths of their sheaths a 
little hairy.—Spikes terminal, solitary, simple, cylindric, from threa 
to four inches long. Rachis flexuose, three-sided.— Flowers numere 
ous, solitary, alternate.—Jnvolucre two, rarély one-ilowered; multi 
fid, divisions longer than the flowers, subulate, grooved on the back, 
inside hairy, apex slightly hooked, | Both flowers hermaphrodite.— 
Calyx three-valved, one-flowered, the exterior one smaller, all are 
thin, smooth, nerved.— Coro two-valved, valves hard, acute, but not 
awned, iu length nearly equal, and scarcely kager than as s calyx, — 
Seius three DNA two, plumose. puru 
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SACCHARUM. Schreb. "Gan N. 104. — gd 
Calyx one-flowered, two-valved, girt at the base with wool ; coro? 
uncertain. ; 
F S. cylindricum. Linn. Sp. PL ed. Wi ild. i i, 393. 
Culms from one to two feet high, shorter than the leaves. Pant- 
cle linear, white with the wool of the calyx. ` Coro and calyz two- 
valved and diandrous. gee : : Koss pe 
d Lagurus cylindrica. Sp. Pla —— % ea 
y B. Thunbergi, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd.i. 393. Retz. “Obs. v p. dm 
ón caricosum, Rumph., amb. 6. 17. t. 7. PE 
Beng. Ooloo. | 
Teling. Baroomhiss. i 
- Is a native of moist, stiff, uie ground, and particularly coms 
mon over Bengal, where the fields are white with it when i in flow- 
er, after the first rains in April and May. 
Root creeping at some depth under the surface —Culms erect, 
Simple, from one to two feet high, leafy, jointed, joints bearded.— 
Leaves, those of the root or lower part of the culm are m | 
than the culm, tapering equally towards each end, smoot 
