246 triandria digynta. Sacchcmtm. 



&c. as in the genus. Seed clavate, smooth, clear whitish 

 yellow. 



Obs. Cattle do not eat it. 



10. S. Munja. R. 



Straight, from eight to ten feet high, every part smooth, 

 except the inside of the base of the hispid, long, margined, li- 

 near, white nerved, channelled leaves. Panicles large, oblong, 

 spreading ; branches thereof verticelled, and super-decom- 

 pound. Flowers all hermaphrodite. Corols two-valved. 



Hind. Mnnja. See Jlsiat. Res. iv. 248. 



A native of the countries about Benares where the natives 

 make ropes of it. In the Botanic garden it blossoms in No- 

 vember. I never saw it, nor, so far as 1 can find, is it known 

 so low down as Bengal, otherwise I might have thought it 

 Konig's S. bengalense. 



U.S. canaliculatum. R. 



Perennial, erect, (from eight to twelve feet high.) Leaves 

 subulate, deeply channelled, very long. Panicles linear-ob- 

 long; ramifications simple, and verticelled; calycine valves 

 with thick callous base and fringed margins; corol one- 

 valved. 



A most beautiful stately species, a native of Bengal, in 

 most tint kets, &c. where the soil is rich, flowering in August 

 and September. 



Culms about as thick as a common ratan, incrusted with 

 a white substance under the sheaths ; filled with pith. Leaves 

 from five to seven feet long, semi-cylindric, no where thicker 

 than a pack thread, the whole being only a perfect channel ; 

 their sheaths simply bearded at the mouth. Panicle sub- 

 cylindric, about two feet long, waving with its immense 

 quantity of silver-coloured, long, soft hair, to every breeze. 

 Floicers paired, one sessile, the other pedicelled. Calycine 

 robes are remarkable on account of their large thick smooth 

 callous base. 



