250 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. : Saccharum, — 
Kerpa. Hort. mal. 12. 85. t. 46. seems to be this, rather than Ss. 
spontaneum. 
Teling. Konandiatemoo. mp 
A very high beautiful species, a native of vallies 5 compare with 
S. Arundinaceum. 
. Root creepmg.— Culms many, erect, from ten to sixteen feet high, 
towards the base perennial; ligneous, inwardly spongy, (not piped) 
' smooth, round, without any groove, or hollow any where, about au 
inch in circumference at the thickest part which is ücar the middle. 
— Leaves alternate, sheathing, remote, remarkably long and narrow, / 
but firm, tapering from the middle towards. each end ; margins armed 
with very sharp spines, mouth of the sheaths woolly. — Panicles 
terminal, crowded, when the flowers are on the decay linear, oblong, - 
erect, eighteen inches long, three in diameter, and composed of -— 
tiful cream-coloured, downy, short, sub-erect, ramous, sub-verticel | 
: spiked r racemes.— Rachis round, striated. — Flowers in pairs, one ses- 
sile, the other pedicelled, both hermaphrodite. — Calyx one-flowered, 
two-valved, both valves pointed, and covered with much long, € cream- 
coloured soft hair as well as their pedicels, and particularly round | 
their insertion.—Corol of the sessile flower three-valved, of the pe- 
dicelled lower two-valved, membranaceous, white. I could not ob- 
serve any nectary.—Stamens, &c. as in the genus.— Seed dii 
smooth, clear whitish yellow. : u 
Obs. Cattle do not eat it. A 
10. s. Munja. R. CM d 
— Straight, from eight to ten feet high, evety part smooth, iit m 
‘the inside of the base of the hispid, margined, long, linear, — : 
nerved, channelled leaves. Panicles large, oblong, spreading ; J 
-es thereof verticelled, and super-decompound. Pss all bem : 
` phrodite. Corals two-valved. o o 
~ Hind. Munja. See Asiat. Res. iv. 248. " 
-A native of the countries: about Benares where aS natives ae e : 
ropas of it. = the Botanic. Garden it blossoms in Norah di 
me co» - 
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