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ing destroyed, and the young shoots would suffer very much 
from the hot winds, and ants, which I witnessed the second 
year I came to Mirzapore; but the shoots from the China 
canes IJ cut last January, stood the last hot season uncommon- 
ly well, and will next January, I have reason to believe, from 
_ the present appearance, make half, or nearly three-fourths the 
quantity of sugar they did last January ; and that with the 
trifling’ expense of clearing the ground twice; cutting, and 
manufacturing the juice. Ishould be extremely happy to 
have sent you a more particular account, but that is not in 
my power, as the native statement is not to be depended 
upon, I did purchase twelve cottas of the best Bengal canes 
last January, merely as an experiment, which yielded just 
half the quantity of sugar my China canes did.” 
7. S, procerum, R. . 
Perennial, from ten to twenty feet high, erect, 5 i en- 
-_siform, with a white rib, and hispid margins. Panicle diffuse, 
with verticelled, compound and decompound branches, Co- 
rol of the pedicelled flower two, and of the sessile three-valy- 
ed, with the inner one retuse. | : 
Beng. Teng. 
__A native of onl. and by far the most beautiful of the 
genus I have yet met with. It comes nearest in appearance 
to S, Officinarum, but is a taller and much more elegant 
plant. 
_ Culms perennial, straight, simple till the second or third 
year, then branchy, about as thick asa slender walking cane; 
joints from six to twelve inches long, and filled with ‘insipid 
pith; height of the whole plant, when in Hors fom ime 
twenty feet. Leaves from three to five feet long, ta ering 
a long and very fine point, the greatest breadth is is at one | or 
Ri ifort, above the , from one to two 
id. Sheaths bearded round 
— iat at their insertion’ on the outside, Panicles 
dere’ on one te two feet long, ovate, erect, composed of 
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