Saccharum. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, | 239° 
- In Bengal there are three varieties cultivated, viz. The 
above described or common yellow cane, called by the Ben+ 
galees Poort. Secondly, the purple cane called by them 
Kajooli, which is said to yield juice one-eighth part richer 
than the yellow cane; but the sugar thereof is always of a 
dark colour, The third and last, is a very large, light colour- 
ed cane, called Kullooa, which grows in a low swampy soil, 
where neither of the other two will succeed ; its juice is still 
weaker than that of the yellow cane; but it has these advan- 
tages, that it grows to a much larger size, and where neither 
of the other two will thrive. It is therefore much cultivated, 
because the other sorts planted on higher situations are apt to 
suffer from drought, uivideas” 
6. S, sinensis. R. pe OA 
Culms from six to ten feet high. Leaves ‘iy itt mar- 
gins hispid, panicles ovate, with simple and compound ver 
ticelled branches, Corol of two valves on the same side, 
‘Siem erect, jointed, whole height from ten to fifteen feet ; 
the greatest part covered with the sheaths of the leaves; 
Joints from four to eight inches long, and from two to three 
inches in circumference, colour pale brownish yellow. Leaves: 
_ sub-bifarious, tapering from the base, to a long, fine, point ; 
plain, smooth on both sides ; margins armed with numerous,’ 
small, very acute spines pointing forward, length from two 
to three feet, and about an inch and a half broad at the base. 
Sheaths smooth, with a small ligula, or stipulary ring round: 
the inside of the mouth. Panicle ovate, erect; branches, 
simple and compound, sub-verticelled, eckeinnan, Jong: rena 3 
slender, In S. officinarum the branches ofthe panicle are: — 
scattered over the common rachis and are decompound, and) 
es on, Daa rst the most obvios specie 
dent of the nal small inner scale, or 
the corol. Caly ijt ite martoulinis wool, as in. 
the genus. “Corol of the! two valves on the same (anterior) 
side, the inner one very small, Nectary of two, large, broad, 
