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cellatis, acuminatis; fl. 9 sessili, aristato. (Retz.)—4. acicularis, Roem. et Schult. Syst. vol. ii. p. 812; 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. i. p. 262. A. amethystinum, Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. (ined.) p. 346; Rheede, 
p.12. t. 48. A. Javanicum, Nees in Steud. Syn. Glum. vol. i. p. 396. Rhaphis trivialis, Lour. 
Coch. p. 676; Trin. Icon. p. 1. t. 8,9. Centrophorum Chinense, Trin. Fund. p. 106. t. 5. Chry- 
sopogon aciculatus, Trin. Fund. p. 188. C. trivialis, Nees in Nov. Act. xvi. 171.—In dry, sunny 
places, Vanua Levu, Lakeba, Ovalau (Seemann! n. 686). Also collected in the Society (Banks 
and Solander!), Hawaiian (Barclay! Macrae!), and Marquesas Islands (Barclay !), and in Wallis 
Island (Sir E. Home !). 
II. Eulalia, Trin. (non Kth.); Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 420. Rhachis partialis inarticulatus, 
tenuis, subfiliformis. Spiculz pilis sericeis involucratze, alternatim gemine, 1-florz, flore inferiore 
neutro, l-paleaceo, superiore $. Glume 2, subsquales, mutice. Pales 2, glumis breviores, inferior 
floris d apice in aristam producta, superior mutica. Squamule 2, integre, glabre. Stamina 3. 
Ovarium sessile, glabrum. Styli 2, terminales, elongati; stigmata plumosa. Caryopsis libera, 
elliptica, glabra.—Gramina erecta v. basi prostrata, foliis pl. min. lanceolato-linearibus, rhachi ramose 
racemosa, spiculis geminis, nunc altera sessili, nunc utraque pedicellata. , 
1. E. Japonica, Trin. Act. Petr. 1833, p. 332; culmo frutescente tereti simplici glabro (3-6- 
pedali); foliis lineari-filiformibus serratis glabris striatis ; costa media crassa; racemis subsemiverti- 
cillatis longissimis alternis; spiculis 2-linealibus omnibus pedicellatis; pedicello altero duplo breviore 
utroque glabro; glumis subzqualibus acutis glabris, pilis ad basin calycis glumas subsequalibus ; 
arista torta glumis paulo longiore.—E. densa, Munro in Seem. Bot. Herald, p. 434, Saccharum 
polydactylon, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 42 (1784). 5. densum, Nees ab Esenb. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. 
1850. S. pregrande, Steud. Syn. Glum. vol. i. p. 408. S. floridulum, Labill. Austr. Cal. p. 13. 
t. 18. S. spontaneum, Forst. Prodr. n. 32. S. fatuum, Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. (ined.) p. 213, 
et in Parkins. Drawings of Tahit. Plants (ined.), t. 9. — EriantAus floridulus, Schult. Mant.; Kunth, 
Enum. vol. i. p. 479. E. Japonicum, Kunth, l.c. Ripidium Japonicum, Trin. Nomina vernac. 
Vitiensia, “ Gasau ” et ** Vitavita."—In swamps, Taviuni, Viti Levu, and Vanua Levu (Seemann! n. 
691). Also colleeted in Tahiti (Banks and Solander! U. S. Expl. Exped!),  Aneitum (M'Gilli- 
vray !), Samoa (U. S. Expl. Exp. !), Tonga (U.S. Expl. Exp. !), and New Caledonia. 
This cane is used by the natives for arrows and for Yam sticks. The leaves make an excellent thatch 
for houses. 
III. Saccharum, Linn. Gen. n. 73; Endl. Gen. n. 939. Spiculze 2-florze, basi sericeo-piloscw, 
flore inferiore neutro, 1-paleaceo, superiore 2. Glume 2, subsequales, muticz. Paleæ 3, minute, 
muticz, inequales. Squamulæ 2-3-lobe, interdum in tubum connate. Stamina 1-3. Ovarium 
sessile, glabrum. Styli 2, terminales, elongati; stigmata plumosa. Caryopsis libera.—Gramina 
elata, ramosissime paniculata ; spiculis geminatis, altera sessili, altera pedicellata, omnibus fertilibus, 
basi articulatis. 
l. S. officinarum, Linn. Sp. n. 79; panicula effusa; floribus 3-andris; glumis obsolete 
l-nerviis, dorso longissime pilosis.—Kunth, Enum. vol. i. p. 474. Nomen vernac. Vitiense, 
* Dovu."—Cultivated by natives and white settlers, and in some places apparently wild (Seemann !). 
The Sugar-cane, called Dovu in Fijian, grows, as it were, wild in various parts of the group, and a 
purple variety, attaining sixteen feet high and a corresponding thickness, is cultivated to some extent. 
No foreigners have as yet set up mills, nor are the natives at present acquainted with the process of 
sugar-making; they merely chew the cane, and employ the juice for sweetening their puddings. The 
* Sugar-cane is termed in Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Raratonga, and Savage Island * To." In the Hawaiian 
