Saccharum. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 9A5 
one to three feet long ; branches decompound, or more; the 
inferior alternate, the superior sub-verticelled with generally 
three sharp angles armed with small stiff bristles besides long 
white silky hairs, lowers paired, one sessile, the other pe- 
dicelled. Calyx two-valved, clothed with long, soft, white, 
silky hairs, Corol three-valved, fringed. 
9. S, exaltatum. R. 
Culms from ten to sixteen feet high. Leaves flat with prick- 
ly margins. Panieles linear, crowded. Calyces woolly. Co- 
rol two and three-valved. 
Kerpa. Hort, Mal. 12. t. 46. seems to be this, rather than 
S. spontaneum, 
Teling. Konda-Kanamoo. 
A very high beautiful species, a native of vallies. | Com- 
pare with S. Arundinaceum. ; 
Root creeping. Culms many, erect, feelin ten to sixteen 
feet high, towards the base perennial, ligneous, inwardly 
spongy, (not piped,) smooth, round, without any groove, or 
hollow any where, about an inch in circumference at the 
thickest part which is near the middle. Leaves alternate, 
sheathing, remote, remarkably long and narrow, but firm, ta- 
pering from the middle towards each end; margins armed 
with very sharp spines, mouth of the aliclits woul y- Pani- 
eles terminal, crowded, when the flowers are on the decay, 
linear, oblong, erect, eighteen inches long, three in diameter, 
and composed of beautiful Siiesitstliocane downy, short, 
sub-erect, ramous, sub-verticelled spiked racemes, — 
round, striated. Flowers in pairs, one sessile, the ther pe- 
dicelled, both hermaphrodite. Calyx one-flowered, 
sarod, itz zalee pointed, and covered ‘ vitl 
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