-242 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Saccharum, 
. A native of Bengal, where it delights in low wet places, blossoms 
Bec the close of the rains, and the beginning of the cold season. . 
- Root perennial.— Culms of great length, i. e, from eight to sixteen 
ormore feet long, one half or more, generally resting on the ground, and : 
| striking roots at the j jomts ; ; this portion is often as thick as the lite 
tle finger, and perennial ; the extreme portion erect, straight, and 
. taper to ihe thickness of a crow-quill at the panicle ; filled with pith, 
in every part.— Leaves from one to six feet long, very slender, point- 
ed, channelled, bottoin of the channel white, margins most acutely . ; 
hispid, mouths of the sheaths and for. some way above them-bearded 
with much soft white hair.—Panicles ovate, or oval, erect, large 
Ramifications coloured, verticilled, compound.— Flowers approxi- 
mate, paired ; one sessile, the other pedicelled, both girt with much, 
pure white, soft hair.—Calyr two-valved; inner valve ciliate.— 
Goral one-valved, ciliate. 
5 S. Officinaran... Linn. Sp. PI. ed. Willd. i. 21. 
Culms from six to twelve feet high. Leaves flat. Panicle pue 
spreading ; branches alternate, decompound. Corol one-valved. — 
- Sans. xu Ikshoo, Tara, Rusala; the light-eoloured varieties; 
dus: Poondra, aud qtnca, AE the red. 
* Beng. “Ik, Ook, Ak. Kooshiar, also Poori and Kullooa the t wo x 
pale varieties, and Kajool the red. punc 
Teling. Cherukoo-bodi, or Cherdteoksduliodt Y id 
Where wild, I do not know.— Panicles terminal, SENE erect, 
oblong, from one to three feet long, of a grey-colour, from the large — 
quantity of long soft hair that surrounds the flower. Ramifications al- 
ternate, very ramous, expanding.— Rachis striated.— Flowers herma- — 
phrodite, in pairs ; one sessile the other pedicelled .— Calyx two-leav-- 
ed, smooth.— Corol one-valved, smooth, membranaceous, rose-CO- 
loured.— Stamens and Pistil as in the genus. I have not seen the seed. 
- Obs. Itis much cultivated i in the Rajamundri Circar, where they 
only make a coarse sort of brown raw sugar, which is sold on ‘the: 
` spot for about three half-pence E ione The cane is culti a 
