544 TRiANDRiA DioYNiA. Saccharum. 



described or common yellow cane, called by the Bengalees 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 su- 

 gar thereof is always of a dark-colour. The third and last is a very 

 large, light-coloured cane, called Kullooa, which grows in a low 

 swampy soii, where neither of the other two will succeed ; its juice 

 is still weaker tlian that of the yellow cane ; but it has these ad- 

 vantages, that il grows to a much larger size, and where neither of 

 the other two wiil thrive. It is therefore much cultivated, because 

 the other sorts planted on higher situations are apt to suffer from 

 drought. 



6. S. sinensis. JR. 



Culms from six to ten feet high. Leaves flat, with margins hispid, 

 panicles ovate, with simple and compound verticilled branches. Co- 

 re/ of two valves on the same side. 



Stemereci, jointed, whole height from ten to fifteen feet ; the great- 

 est 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. — Lectressub-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, sim- 

 ple and compound, sub-verticilled, reclinate, long and slender. In S. 

 officinarum the branches of the panicle are scattered over the com- 

 mon rachis and are decompound, and super-decompound ; on this 

 1 rest the most obvious specific deference, independent of the addi- 

 tional small inner scale, or valve of the corol. — Calyx, and its sur- 

 rounding wool, as in the g^nus. — Corol of the two valves on the 

 same (anterior) side, the inner one very small. — Nectaiy of two, large, 

 broad, cuneate, crenulate, fleshy scales, which occupy the two pos- 

 terior sides of the germ, opposite to the two valves of the corol. 



