Saccharum. triandria digynia. 237 



sixteen or more feet long-, one half or more, generally resting 

 on the ground, and striking roots at the joints; this portion 

 is often as thick as the little finger, and perennial ; the ex- 

 treme portion erect, straight, and taper to the thickness of a 

 crow-quill at the panicle; filled with pith in every part. 

 Leaves from one to six feet long, very slender, pointed, chan- 

 nelled, bottom of the channel white, margins most acutely 

 hispid, mouths of the sheaths and for some way above them 

 bearded with much soft white hair. Panicles ovate, or oval, 

 erect, large. Ramifications coloured, verticelled, compound. 

 Flowers approximate, paired; one sessile, the other pedi- 

 celled, both girt with much, pure white, soft hair. Calyx 

 two-valved; inner valve ciliate. Corol one- valved, ciliate. 



5. S. Officinamm. Linn, sp. pi. ed. Wifld. i. 321. 



Calms from six to twelve feel high. Leaves flat. Pani- 

 cle ovate, spreading ; branches alternate, decompound. Corol 

 one-valved. 



Sans. Ikshoo, Rttsala, the light-coloured varieties; Poon- 

 dra, and Kangtrntka, the red, 



Beng. Ik, Ook, Ak, Kooshiar, also Voori and K?/lIooa the 

 two pale varieties, and KajooH the red. 



Telinrj. Cherukoo-bodi, or Cherukoo-duboo. 



Where wild, I do not know. Panicles terminal, spread- 

 ing, erect, oblonu - , from one to three feet lono- of a ffrav co- 

 lour, from the large quantity of long soft hair that surrounds 

 the flower. Ramifications alternate, very Famous, expand- 

 ing. Rachis striated. Floivers hermaphrodite, in pairs; 

 one sessile, the other pedicelled. Calyx two-leaved, smooth. 

 Corol one-valved, smooth, membranaceous, rose-coloured. 

 Stamens and pistil as in the genus. I have not seen the seed. 



Obs. It is much cultivated in the Rajamundri Circar, 

 where they only make a coarse sort of brown raw sugar, 

 which is sold on the spot for about three half-pence per 

 pound. The cane is cultivated on their best lands, which 



