350 TRiANDRiA DiGV>?iA. SacchaTum 



Kerpa, Hort. vial. 12. So. t. 46. seems to be this, rallier than S. 

 spontaneum. 



Teiing. Konda-Kanamoo- 



A very high beautiful species, a native of vallies; compare with 

 S. Arundinaceum. 



Hoot creeping.— Cc/Zaws many, erect, from ten to sixteen feet high, 

 towards the base perennial, ligneous, inwardly spongy, (not piped,) 

 smooth, round, without any groove, or hollow any where, about an 

 i»ich in Circumference at the thickest part which is near the midd.e. 

 — Leaves alternate, sheathing, remote, remaikably long and 'larrow, 

 but firm, tapering from the middle tovvar.ls each end ; margins arm 3d 

 with very sharp spines, mouth of the sheatlis woolly. — Pauicki 

 terminal, crowded, when the flowers are on the decay linear, o\A ).\j;, 

 erect, eighteen inches long, three in diamc-ter, and composed of btaa- 

 tiful cream-coloured, downy, short, aub-arect, ramouj, sub-verticened 

 spiked racemes. — .Rachis lOiind, stnaced. — Flozoi'rsm pairs, one ses- 

 sile, the other pedicelled, both hermaphrodite. — Cal^x oin-flowered, 

 two-valved, both valves pointed, and covered with muc'i lo.ij., cream- 

 coloured soft hair as well as their pedicels, and jiarticularly round 

 their insertion. — Carol of the sessile flower three-valved, of the pe- 

 dicelled flower two-valved, membranaceous, white. I'couIq not ob- 

 serve any nectary — Stamens, 8cc. 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, margined, long, linear, w hite- 

 nerved, channelled leaves. Panicles large, oblong, spreading ; branch- 

 es thereof verticelled, and super-decompound. Flowers all herma- 

 phrodite. Corals two-valved. 



Hind. Munja. See Asiat. Res. iv. £48. 



A native of the countries about Benares where the natives make 

 ropes of it. In the Botanic Garden it blossoms in November. I 



