246 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Saccharum, 
&c. as in the genus. Seed clavate, smooth, clear whitish 
yellow, 
Obs, Cattle do not eat it, 
10..S. Munja. R. 
Straight, from eight to ten feet high, every part aio 
except the inside of the base of the hispid, long, margined, li- 
near, white nerved, channelled leaves. Péinieles large, oblong, 
spreading ; branches thereof verticelled, and super-decom- 
pound, Flowers all hermaphrodite. Corols two-valved. 
Hind. Munja, See Asiat. Res, iv, 248. 
A native of the countries about Benares where the natives 
make ropes of it. In the Botanic garden it blossoms in No- 
vember. I never saw it, nor, so far as | can find, is it known 
so low down as Bengal, otherwise I might have ene . 
KGnig’s 8. bengaiense, ; 
11.8. saikeRielaiun. R, : rs 
Perennial, erect, (from eight to twelve feet hich.) ‘Leaves 
subulate, deeply channelled, very long. Panieles linear-ob- 
long; ramifications simple, and verticelled ; calycine valves 
with. ide callous base and Soexin margins; corol one- 
valved. s 
Asinoet Kewatilak datalg’ species, a native ‘ali pingaijiee | 
most thickets, &c. where the soil is rich, seapete in See 
and. September, 
“QCulnsabpat. 96 tick: ae chctinestisdilics kata 
a white substance under the sheaths ; filled with pith. Leaves — 
from five to seven feet long, semi-cylindric, no where thicker ae 
than a pack thread, the whole being only a perfect channel 3 
their sheaths simply bearded at the mouth. ‘Paniclesub-  _ 
cylindric, about two feet long, waving with its immense — 
quantity of silver-coloured, long, soft hair, to every breeze. 
: val ene — senariable espomcinnet & Bice eu pe s ae 
vers paired, one sessile, the other pedicelled. Calycine — ee 
