236 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Saccharum, 
a 
that cattle do not eat it, except while very young. It makes 
Bends mats for various purposes, and is used to thatch houses. 
_ a5 _ fuseum. R. . ’ 
Erect, five to eight feet high, Leaves ube teow : 
smooth, Panicle spreading, verticelled ; ramifications com= 
pound. Flowers paired, both pedipellad, wool of the ~~ 
short and scanty. Coro/s three-valved. . 
Beng. Khuree or Pata-Khuree, A 
_ A native of damp places over Bengal. Flowering time the 
rainy season, Pra 
Culms erect, from five to eight feet high, as thick as the 
little finger, hairy near the top. Leaves sheathing, lineat- 
lanceolate, smooth in every part, except the margins of the 
sheaths, which are fringed with much soft hair ; length about _ 
three or four feet, breadth about, or under two inches. Pani- 
cles from one to two feet long, erect, linear, verticelled, except 
toward the apex ; ramifications compound ; ramyle nodding. 
Flowers paired, one short-pedicelled, the other longer, both 
hermaphrodite ; wool of the pedicels, &c. short and in small 
quantity, Calyx with ciliate margins, otherwise smooth and 
shining.  Corol three-valved, of which two aré equal and 
nearly as long as the calyx, the third minute, all much cet 
ed. Seed long, obovate, brown, smooth, 4 sae 
Obs. The natives make des eh y 
the pete wis and use it fap screens aaeen fone bon 
ies portion of the culms seceiiihons: ail — pee 
Leaves narrow, channelled, Panicle oblong, lax, with com= 
pound verticelled ramifications ; corel one- velxpdi — 
_ Beng. Khuree. sth 
A native of Bengal, where it delights in ie wet sees sy 
blossoms about the close of the rains, snetiniede be 
te onl season... 
