248 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. SaCcJiaTUm, 



<' sugar they did last January; and that with the trifling expence 

 ''of clearing the giound twice ; cutting, and manufacturing the juice. 

 « I should Idc 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 expermient,^which 

 "yielded just half the quantity of sugar my China caties did." 



7. S. procerum. R' • . 



Perennial, from ten to twenty feet high, erect. Leaves ensiform, 

 with a white rib, and hispid margins. Panicle diffuse, with verticil- 

 led, compound and decompound branches. Carol of the pedicelled 

 flower two, and of the sessile three-valved, with the inner one re- 



tuse. 



Ben^. Teng. . , r 1 



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

 I have yet met with. It comes nearest in appearance to S. OUicina- 

 rum 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 tilled with insipid pith ; height of the whole 

 plant, when in flower from ten to twenty ieet.-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, margms hispid.-SA.a^As bearded round the 

 mouth, andat their insertion on the ouisxde.-Pauicles large, from one 

 to two feet long, ovate, erect, couiposed of numerous expanding, sub- 

 verticilled, compound, woolly branches, when in blos.:om much ex- 

 panded, afterwards they become erect, and pressed in on the common 

 vachis, forming a dense cylindrical panicle, and I have repeatedly 

 observed this variation in the form of the panicle at difl"erent periods, 

 to run through the whole ^enixs.— Flowers in pairs, cue sessile, the 

 other pedicelled.-C.r/v-V purple, wooIly.-Coro/ of the sessile flow- 

 er three, of the pedicelled two-valved, all are exceedingly delicate, and 

 the jhird valve of the sessile flower is retuse. 



