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STUDIES IN INDIAN SUOARCANfes 



ill tl-ie cliaracters mentioned. This may be seen from a study of the appended 

 table. 



Length of 



part of cane 



with dead 



LEAVES 



Length of 



shoot with 



living leaves 



£ 5d 



H 





r I Saretha 21—23 

 I group 



1915-16 ; 1 



overripe I Sunnabile 29—38 

 li group 



Saretha 

 191617 I i group 

 9 months -1 

 old I 



I 



12-17 



Sunnabile I 13—20 

 group 



6'ir-8'2' 

 6 lO'-Q r 

 3' 3'-5 5" 

 2' 9'-5' T 



7'7"[5'8'— 7' r . 6' 5' 

 7 5'4 i'-e 11" 5 11 



4'8'5'2''-8' 0' 6' T 



l'2'i'r-T V 



5' 11 



Total length ok 



PLANT 



It appears from the table that, at any given period, there are more joints 

 with dead leaves in the Sunn.abile group, but, in spite of this, the portions 

 bearing these dead leaves are longer in the Saretha series. From this it 

 appears that the lower joints are longer in the Saretha group. In the dead 

 leaf portion, at twelve months or over, 23 Saretha joints measure 7' 7" while 

 32 Sunnabile only reach 7' 5", while at nine months 15 of the former measure 

 4' 8" while 16 of the latter only reach 4' 2". Further, the living leafy shoot is 

 uniformly longer in the Saretha series by 6" or 8", and thus we are prepared for 

 the independent results obtained in the measurements of the total lengths of 

 the plants of the two series laid oub on the ground. At crop time the average 

 length of the Saretha series was 14' 0"to 13' 4" for the Sunnabile series, while 

 the difference was greater at nine months when the figures were 11' 3" and 

 10' 1" respectively. These results tally with those given later, when it is shown 

 that the average cane, joint and leaf are longer in the Saretha group than in 

 the Sunnabile series. 



Cane Measurements. 



(1) Length of stripped cane, number of joints, average length of mature 

 joints, average thickness of cane, and cane inodule. 



These characters have been noted at various times and in various places, 

 hut, for the sake of comparison, two only of these sets of observations will be 



