944  . TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Saccharum, 
described ot common yellow cane, called by the Bengalees Poori. 
Secondly the purple cane called by them Kajooli, which is said to 
yield juice one-eighth part richer than the yellow cane ; but the su- 
gar thereof is always of a dark-colour. The third and last is a very 
large, light-coloured cane, called Kullooa, which grows iu a low 
swampy soil, where neither of the other two will succeed ; its juice 
is still weaker than that of the yellow cane; but it has these ad- 
vantages, that it grows to a much larger size, and where neitherof 
the other two will thrive. It is therefore much cultivated, because 
the other sorts planted on higher situations are apt to suffer from 
drought. ; 
6. S. sinensis. R. : 
Culms from six to ten feet high. Leaves flat, with "en 
panicles ovate, with simple and compound verticilled branches. Co- 
rol of two valves on the same side. 
| Stem erect, jointed, whole height from ten to fifteen jest ; the gu 
“est part covered with the sheaths of the leaves; joints from four to ' 
eight inches long, and from two to three inches in circumference, 
colour pale brownish yellow.— Leaves sub-bifarious, tapering from the 
base, to a long, fine, point; plain, smooth on both sides; margins 
armed with numerous, small, very acute spines pointing forwaid, 
length from two to three feet, and about an inch and a half broad at 
the base.—Sheaths smooth, with a small ligula, or stipulary ring 
round the inside of the mouth.— Panicle ovate, erect; branches, sim- 
ple and compound, sub-verticilled, reclinate, long and slender. In $. 
-officinarum the branches of the panicle are scattered over the com- 
mon rachis and are decompound, and super-decompound ; on this 
I rest the most obvious specific deference, independent of the addi- 
tional small inner scale, or valve of the corol.—Calyz, and its sur- 
rounding wool, as in the genus.—Corol of the two valves on the 
same (anterior) side, the inner one very small.— Nectary of two, largo 
broad, cuneate, crenulate, fleshy scales, which occupy the two pos- 
terior sides of the germ, opposite to the two valves of the corol. 
