Saccharum, — TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 235 
whiteness, from the quantity of wool that surrounds the inser- 
tion of the flowers, Flowers pedicelled, generally simple. 
Calyx two-valved, with here and there a long white hair. 
Corol two-valved, minute. Stamens two. . 
Obs, Cattle are not fond of it, particularly when old, It is 
used in the marriage ceremonies of the Telingas. In Bengal 
it is much used for thatch, pom . 
2. S. spontaneum. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd, i, 321. 
Culms from five to fifteen feet high, Leaves involute when 
dry. Panicle linear, spreading, verticelled ; ramification sim- 
ple ; calyx ciliate. Corol one-valved. 
- Sans, Kasha. 
a Kagara. ' 
Teling. Relloo-gaddy. ) djsorte 
Grows on the banks of rivers, in hedges, and on moist, un- 
cultivated land ; in a good soil, it is frequently from ten to 
fifteen feet high, in a poorer soil, from five to ten. 
“Root peremial, creeping very deep in the grounds Culms 
annual, erect, leafy, round, lower parts perennial, and : as thick 
as the finger, annual shoots about as thick asa common quill, 
solid, height various as above observed. Leaves sheathing, 
remarkably long and narrow, but firm; margins hispid ; a 
transverse section appears crescent; sheaths with their mouths 
woolly, Panicles terminal, spreading, erect, oblong’, from one 
to two feet long, composed of verticelled, filiform, simple, 
~ (except the lower verticil or two,) spiked racemes; spiked, 
because half the flowers are sessile, and half pedicelled. The 
immense quantity of long, bright, silver-coloured wool, which 
surrounds the base of the flowers’ gives: rerrarnaersiad 
conspicuous, gaudy appearance. Flowers paired, one-pedi- 
celled, the other sessile. de two-leaved 5 nargins | 
. © Obs, L have not seen the ripe seed, erway coarse 
