242 iRiANDRiA DiGYNiA. SaccTiafaml 



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. 



. Hoot perennial — Calms of great length, i. e, from eight to sixteen 

 or more feel long, out half or more, generally resting on the ground, and 

 strikmg roots at the joints ; this portion is often as thick as the lit- 

 tle finger, and pereni'iial ; the extreme portion erect, straight, and 

 taper to the thickness of a c~low-quill at the panicle ; tilled with piih 

 ill every part. — Leaves from one to six feet long, very slender, point* 

 ed, channelled, bottom of the channel white, margins most acutely 

 hispid, mouths or the sheaths and for some way above them bearded 

 with much soft white hair. — Panicles ovate, or oval, erect, large. 

 Hamijications coloured, verticilled, compound. — Floivers approxi- 

 mate, paired ; one sessile, the other pedicelled, both girt with much, 

 pure \\hite, soft hair. — Calj/x two-valved ; inner valve ciliate. — 

 Coral one-valved, ciliate. 



.5. S. Officinarum. Linn. Sp. PL ed JVilld. i. 321. 



Culms from six to tAvelve feet high. Leaves flat. Panicle ovate, 

 spreading ; branches alternate, decompound. Carol one-valved. 



Sans. IC^:, Ikshoo, -^-e^^:, Hwsalrt; the light-soloured varieties; 

 ■q*^:, Poondra, and ^t^"^^:? Kanguruka, the red. 



beng. Ik, Ook, Ak. Kooshiar, also Poor/ and Kullooa the two 

 pale, varieties, and Kajooh' the red. 



Telinor. Cherukoo-bodi, or Cherukoo-duboo. 



Where wild, I do not know. — P«»/c7ei terminal, spreading, erect, 

 oblong, from one to thpee feet long, of a grey-colour, from the large 

 quantity oi" long soft hair that surrounds the flower. Ramijications al- 

 ternate, very ramous, expanding.— Rrtc/i/.s striated. — Flowers herma- 

 phrodite, in pairs ; one sessile the otherpedicelled. — Cali/x two-leav- 

 ed, smooth. — Coral one-valved, smooth, membranaceous, rose-co- 

 loured. — Stamens and Pistil ^s in the genus. I have not seen the seed. 



0^5. 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 



