wn 0 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. - ~- Saccharum. 
“sugar they did last January ; and that with the trifling expence 
* of clearing the ground twice ; cutting, and manufacturing the juice. 
* | should be extremely happy to have sent you a more particular 
* account, but that is not in my power, as the native statement is 
«not to be depended upon. I did purchase twelve cottas of the 
«best Bengal canes last January, merely as an experiment, which 
* yielded just half the quantity of sugar my China canes did.” 
7. S. procerum. R. 
Perennial, from ten to twenty feet high, erect. Leaves ensiform, 
“with a white rib, and hispid margins. Panicle diffuse, with verticil- 
led, compound and decompound branches. Corol of the pedicelled 
flower two, and of the sessile three-valved, with the inner one re- 
tuse. . 
Beng. Teng. . es RU dad 
A native of Bengal, and by far the most beautiful of the genus 
I have yet met with, It comes nearest in appearance to S. Oficina- 
rum, but is a taller and much more elegant plant. Hee 
` Culms perennial, straight, simple till the second or third year, then 
branchy, about as thick as a slender walking cane ; joints from six 
to twelve inches long, and filled with insipid pith ; height of the whole 
plant, when in flower from ten to twenty feet.— Leaves from three 
to five feet long, tapering to a long and very fine point, the greatest 
breadth is at one or two feet above the sheath, and is there from one to 
two inches; nerve white, margins hispid.— Sheaths bearded round - 
: mouth; and at their insertion on the outside.— Panicles large, from one 
to'two feet long, ovate, erect, composed of numerous expanding, sub- 
verticilled, compound, woolly branches, when in blossom much ex- 
panded , afterwards they become erect, and pressed in on the common - 
rachis, forming a dense | cylindrical panicle, and I have repeatedly 
observed this variation in the form of the panicle at different eriods 
to run through the whole genus.— Flowers in pairs, one sessile, the 
other pedicelled.— Calyx purple, woolly.—Corol of the sessile flow- 
er three, of the pedicelled two-valved, all are exceedingly delicate, and 
the third valve of the sessile flower is retuse. bx 
