236 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. SaccharillH* 



that cattle do not cat it, except while very young 1 . It makes 

 good mats for various purposes, and is used to thatch houses. 



3. S.fvscitm. R. 



Erect, five to eight feet high. Leaves sub-lanceolate, 

 smooth. Panicle spreading, verticelled ; ramifications com- 

 pound. Flowers paired, both pedicelled, wool of the calyx 

 short and scanty. Corols three-valved. 



Beny. Khwree or Pat«-Kh?/ree. 



A native of damp places over Bengal. Flowering time the 

 rainy season. 



Culms erect, from five to eight feet high, as thick as the 

 little finger, hairy near the top. Leaves sheathing, linear- 

 lanceolate, smooth in every part, except the margins of the 

 sheaths, which are fringed with much soft hair : length about 

 three or four feet, breadth about, or under two inches. Pani- 

 cles from one to two feet long, erect, linear, verticelled, except 

 toward the apex ; ramifications compound ; ramule nodding. 

 Flowers paired, one short-pedicelled, the other longer, both 

 hermaphrodite ; wool of the pedicels, &c. short and in small 

 quantity. Calyx with ciliate margins, otherwise smooth and 

 shining. Corol three-valved, of which two are equal and 

 nearly as long as the calyx, the third minute, all much ciliat- 

 ed. Seed long, obovate, brown, smooth. 



Obs. The natives make their pens of the culms of this and 

 the following species, and use it for screens and light fences. 



4. S. semi decumbent. 



Lower portion of the culms procumbent, and perennial. 

 Leaves narrow, channelled. Panicle oblong, lax, with com- 

 pound verticelled ramifications ; corol one-valved. 



Beng. Khwree. 



A native of Bengal, where it delights in low wet places, 

 blossoms about the close of the rains, and the beginning of 

 the cold season. 



Root perennial. Culms of great length, i, e. from eight to 



