Saccharum. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 237 
sixteen or more feet long, one half or more, generally resting 
on the ground, and striking roots at the joints ; this portion 
is often as thick as the little finger, and perennial; the ex- 
treme portion erect, Straight, and taper to the thickness of a 
crow-quill at the panicle; filled with pith in every _ part, 
Leaves from one to six feet long, very slender, pointed, chan- 
nelled, bottom of the channel white, margins most acutely 
hispid, mouths of the sheaths and for some way above them — 
bearded with much soft white hair. Panicles ovate, or oval, 
erect, large. Ramifieations coloured, verticelled, compound. 
Flowers approximate, paired; one sessile, the other pedi- 
celled, both girt with much, pure white, soft hair. Calyx 
two-valved ; inner valve ciliate. Coro one-valved, ciliate, » 
5. 8. Officine um. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i, 821. 
Culms from six to twelve feet high... Leaves: flat. : Pavii; 
cle ovate, spreading ; branches alternate aise ase Corot 
one-valved, . 
» Sans. Ikshoo, Rusala, the — varieties Poon: 
dra, and Kangwruka, the red, ? 
Beng. Ik, Ook, Ak, Kooshiar, also Doart ‘nd Kullooa the 
two re pal varieties, and Kajooli the red. 
- Teling, Cherukoo-bodi, or Cherukoo-duboo. 
Where wild, Ido not know. | Panicles terminal,’ ware 
ing, erect, oblong, from one to three feet long, of a gray co-— 
litte; from the large quantity of long soft hair that surrounds: 
the flower. Ramifications alternate, very ramous, expand- 
ing. Rachis striated. lowers hermaphrodite, in pairs; 
one sessile, the other pedicelled. Calyx two-leaved, mee = 
Corol one-valved, smooth, membranaceous, rose-coloured. ee 
Stamens and pistil as in the genus. I have not seoir thie seed. 
Obs, It is much cultivated in ie ——. Gircar, 
pound. “The cane i is , cultivated on aie peal lands: which 
