Saccharum. ' tuiandria digykia. 249 



Ohs. The seeds or culms are long, strong and straight, and employ- 

 ed by the natives for skreens, and vauou-s other economical purposes, 



8. S. sara. R. 



Erect, from eight to twelve feet high. Leaves flat with prickly 

 margins. Panicle d&nse^ sub-verticilled; ramifications decompound. 

 Florcers paired, one of the pair sessile. CoroL three-valveci. 



Sans. 71*^:, Gooudra, cT^T*!^:; Tejwn^ka, -^t^J' Shnra. 



B.nZ' Shwr. 



Sara. Asiat. Res. iv. 247. 



Found iu the vicinUy of Calcutta but rather rare, whereas S. 

 snontaneum (uhich Sir William Jones mistook for Sara) is very com- 

 mon every where. It is readily distinguished by being a stronger 

 reed, the leaves much larger, wiih very hispid margins, the ra- 

 mifications of the panicle decompound, and a corol of three-valves. 

 Culms perennial, erect, from six to sixteen feet high, often near the 

 base as thick as the little finger, smooth, remarkably Strang— 

 Leates, the 1 .wer ones from four to eight feet long,- and narrow ; 

 the superior ones shorter, broader, tapering from the base to a most 

 fine point, strong, and rigid ; concave above, margins hispid.-S/i^a^^s 

 from twelve to eighteen inches long, with a tuft of han- above then- 

 mouths on the inside .-P«/«'c/e dense, when in tlower open, when m 

 seed condensed and of a lanceolate shape, from one to three feet long; 

 branches decompouiid, or more ; the inferior alternate, the superior 

 sub-verticilled with generally three sharp angles armed wiih small 

 stiff bristles besides long white silky hairs.— fYoffi'ers paired, one 

 ies3ile,the other pedicelled— Cfl/j/x two-valved, clothed with long, 

 soft, white, silky hairs.— Coro/ three-valved, fringed. 



9.S. exaltatum. R. 



Culms from ten to sixteen feet high. Leares fiat with prickly mar- 

 gins. Panivlei linear, crowded. Calyces woolly. Corol, two and 



ree-valved. 



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