234 | SRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Saccharum, 
sheaths a little hairy. Spikes terminal, solitary, simple, cy ylin- 
dric, from three to four inches long. Rachis tlexuose, three- 
sided. Flowers numerous, solitary, alternate. Involucre two, 
rarely one-flowered, multifid, divisions Jonger than the flow- 
ers, subulate, grooved on the back, inside hairy, apex slight- 
ly hooked. Both flowers hermaphrodite. . Calyx three-valv- 
ed, one- flowered, the exterior one smaller, all are thin, smooth, 
nerved, Corol two-valved, valves hard, acute, but not awn- — 
ed, in length nearly equal, and scarcely longer than the 
calyx.. Stamina three, Styles two, plumose. 
SACCHARUM. Schreb. gen. N. 104. 
Calyx one-flowered, two-valved, girt at the base with 
wool ; corol uncertain. 4 
(oEnt 
1, S. eylindricum. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd, i, 323. . : 
Culms from one to two feet high, shorter than the leaves. 
Panicles linear, white with the wool of the calyx. Corol and. Z 
calyx two-valyed and diandrous, or ae 
Lagurus cylindrica, sp, pl. 120. 
“ ae. 
S. Thunbergi. foe pl. ed. Willd, 1,323. Retz. Obs. ¥ ve ao 
p. 17. : 18s ea! 
Gramen caricosum, Rup. Amb. 6. 17. t. ap 2. 
Beng. Ooloo, 1 et aR ee asc at A 
_ Teling, Baroombiss, i Ze 
sa mative « of moist, stiff, pasture planers poe AE ee 
common over Bengal, where the. fields are white with. it 
when in flower, after the first rains in Apriland May. oe 
Root creeping at some depth under the surface, Culms 
erect, simple, from one to.two-feet high, leafy, jointed, joimts 
bearded. Leaves, those.of the root or lower part of the culm. ~ 
are much longer than the culm, tapering equal towards each 
end, smooth, those of the culm are little else than sheaths. o 
Pomicles seine, arin from three to. four. jnshendenes : 
