244 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA; Saccharum, 
numerous expanding, sub-verticelled, compound, woolly 
branches, when in blossom much expanded, afterwards they 
become erect, and pressed in on the common rachis, forming 
a dense cylindrical panicle, and I haye repeatedly observed 
this variation in the form of the panicle at different periods, — 
to run through the whole genus. lowers in parts, one ses- 
sile, the other pedicelled. Calyx purple, woolly. Corol of 
the sessile flower three, of the pedicelled two-valved; all are 
exceedingly delicate, and the third valve of the sessile flower 
is retuse. 
‘Obs, The seeds or culms are long, strong andstraight, a 
chaplived by the natives for skreens, and various other eco-_ 
nomical purposes, 
8. S. Sara. R 
Erect, from eight to twelve feet high. Leaves flat with 7 
prickly margins. Panicles dense, sub-verticelled ; 3; ramifica- 
tions dstempsound. Flowers paired, one of the pair sessile. 
Corol three-valved. 
- Sans. Goondra, Tejunuka, Shura. vi 
Beng, Shur. . 
Sara. Asiat. Res. iv. 247. 
“Found i in the vicinity of Calcutta, but vetted rare, hitheass . . 
s. spontaneum (which Sir William Jones mistook for Sara) 
is very common every where. It is readily distinguished by 
‘ being a stronger reed, the leaves much larger, with very his- A 
‘pid margins, the ramifications of the panicle decompound, _ 
and a corol of three valves. Culms perennial, erect, from 
six to sixteen feet high, often near the base as thick as the 
little finger, smooth, remarkably strong. ’ Leaves, the lower oe 
ones from four to eight feet long,and narrow; the superior ones 
shorter, broader, tapering from the base to a most fine point, 
strong, and rigid ; concave above, margins hispid, Sheaths 
from, twelve to eighteen inches long, with a tuft of hair abowe = 
their ‘mouths: on the inside. Panicle dense, when in flower 
open, when in seed condensed andof a ipsiee, shape, from 
