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In Bengal there are three varieties cultivated, viz. The 

 above described or common yellow cane, called by the Ben- 

 galees Poori. Secondly, the purple cane called by them 

 Kajooli, which is said to yield juice one-eighth part richer 

 than the yellow cane ; but the sugar thereof is always of a 

 dark colour. The third and last, is a very large, light-colour- 

 ed cane, called Kullooa, which grows in a low swampy soil, 

 where neither of the other two will succeed ; its juice is still 

 weaker than that of the yellow cane ; but it has these advan- 

 tao-es, that it grows to a much larger size, and where neither 

 of the other two will thrive. It is therefore much cultivated, 

 because the other sorts planted on higher situations are apt to 

 suffer from drought. 



6. S. sinensis. R. 



Culms from six to ten feet high. Leaves flat, with mar- 

 gins hispid, panicles ovate, with simple and compound ver- 

 ticelled branches. Corol of two valves on the same side. 



Stem erect, jointed, whole height from ten to fifteen feet; 

 the greatest part covered with the sheaths of the leaves; 

 joints from four to eight inches long, and from two to three 

 inches in circumference^ colour pale brownish yellow. Leaves 

 sub-bifarious, tapering from the base, to a long, fine, point ; 

 plain, smooth on both sides ;. margins armed with numerous, 

 small, very acute spines pointing forward, length from two 

 to three feet, and about an inch and a half broad at the base. 

 Sheaths smooth, with a small ligula, or stipulary ring round 

 the inside of the mouth. Panicle ovate, erect; branches, 

 simple and compound, sub-verticelled, reclinate, long and 

 slender. In 8. qfficinarum the branches of the panicle are 

 scattered over the common rachis and are decompound, and 

 super-decompound ; on this I rest the most obvious specific 

 deference, independent of the additional small inner scale, or 

 valve of the corol. Calyx, and its surrounding wool, as in 

 the genus. Corol of the two valves on the same (anterior) 

 side, the inner one very small. Nectary of two, large, broad. 



