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ing destroyed, and the young- shoots would suffer very much 

 from the hot winds, and ants, which I witnessed the second 

 year I came to Mirzapore; but the shoots from the China 

 canes I cut last January, stood the last hot season uncommon- 

 ly well, and will next January, I have reason to believe, from 

 the present appearance, make half, or nearly three-fourths the 

 quantity of sugar they did last January ; and that with the 

 trifling expense of clearing 1 the ground twice; cutting, and 

 manufacturing die juice. I should be extremely happy to 

 have sent you a more particular account, but that is not in 

 my power, as the native statement is not to be depended 

 upon. I did purchase twelve cottas of the best Bengal canes 

 last January, merely as an experiment, which yielded just 

 half the quantity of sugar my China canes did." 



7. S. procerum. R. 



Perennial, from ten to twenty feet high, erect. Leaves en- 

 siform, with a white rib, and hispid margins. Panicle diffuse, 

 with verticelled, compound and decompound branches. Co- 

 rol of the pedicelled flower two, and of the sessile three-valv- 

 ed, with the inner one retuse. 



Beriff. Teng. 



A native of Bengal, and by far the most beautiful of the 

 genus I have yet met with. It conies nearest in appearance 

 to S. Officinarum, but is a taller and much more elegant 

 plant. 



Culms perennial, straight, simple till the second or third 

 year, then branchy, about as thick as a slender walking cane; 

 joints from six to twelve inches long, and filled with insipid 

 pith ; height of the whole plant, when in flower from ten to 

 twenty feet. Leaves from three to five feet long, tapering to 

 a long and very fine point, the greatest breadth is at one or 

 two feet above the sheath, and is there from one to two 

 inches; nerve white, margins hispid. Sheaths bearded round 

 the mouth, and at their insertion on the outside. Panicles 

 large, from one to two feet long, ovate, erect, composed of 



