Saccharum. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. ye -249 
Obs. The seeds or culms are long, strong and straight, and employ- 
‘ed by the natives s for skreens, and various other economical purposes. 
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8. S. sdra. R. ex 3 
Erect, fr om eight to twelve feet high. Leaves flat with Sfc 
margins, Panicle dense, sub-verticilled ; ramifications decompound. 
Flowers paired, one of the pair did Corol tliree-valved. 
Sans. 7 ‘st, Goondra, q Se) ps Wr, Shura. 
Beng. ‘Shur. — . RS E 
or Asiat. Res. iv. 247, ; Pm A e dy 
Found. in the vicinity of Calcutta’ but salles: rare, whereas s. 
X spontaneum (which Sir William Jones mistook for Sara) is ery m 
mon every where. It is readily distinguished by being a stronger 
‘teed, the leaves much larger, with very hispid margins, the Tà- - 
mifications of the panicle decompound, and a coro! of ihree-valves, - 
Culms perennial, erect, from six to sixteen feet high, often-near the 
base as thick as the little finger, sinooth, remarkab! y strong.— 
— Leaves, the lower ones from four to eight feet long, and narrow ; 
the superior ones sh orter, broader, tapering from the base to a most . 
Z ^ fine point, strong, and rigid; concave above, margins hispid.— Sheaths 
from twelve to eighteen inches long, with a tuft of hair above their | 
“Mouths on the inside. — Panicle dense, when in flower open, when in - 
-seed condensedand of a lanceolate shape, from one to three feetlong; 
branches decompound, or more; the inferior alternate, the superior 
sub-verticilled with generally three sharp angles armed with small 
«stiff bristles besides, long white silky hairs.— Flowers paired, one 
sessile, the other pedicelled. —Calyx two-valved, clothed with mie a | 
ud white, sis hairs. — Corol three-valved, fringed. ark 
9. S. dta. R. pt 
Culms from ten to sixteen feet high. Leaves iat with | | 
“Gina. Pesca linear, crowded. . Calyces vastis t RM tw ) and. 
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