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juice, contaming fourteen per cent. of sugar. The stalks 
weigh from one to two pounds when trimmed ready for 
the mill, and I have cut as many as eleven such stalks 
from one root or stool. The seed-heads are large, but 
stiff and erect, containing quantities of large round, 
plump seeds, of a clear yellow color. In general, they 
may be said to ripen two weeks earlier than the last 
named. Like the Vim-bis-chu-a-pa, this variety rattoons 
in about three to three and a half months after the first 
cutting” 
“ H-éngha.”—This is a fine, tall kind, being from ten to 
twelve feet high when full grown, but it is more slender 
than either of the foregoing, and exceedingly graceful in 
appearance. It begins flowering in ninety days, and is 
fully ripe three weeks after; we will therefore class it at 
four months. I have had stalks weighing as much as 
one pound fourteen ounces each. The largest commonly 
obtained may then be estimated at two pounds weight ; 
yielding, by my poor little mill sixty-eight per cent. of 
juice, containing fourteen per cent. of sugar. I have 
obtained ten stalks from one stool. They rattoon in 
three months after cutting. The seed head of the 
E-éngha is large and very pretty, the seed being upon 
long slender foot stalks, which are bent down by the 
weight of the seed, forming a graceful drooping. The 
seeds, which are of a dull, yellow color, are rather long 
and flat than round and plump. 
“\ Nee-d-zi-né” i8 held, by the Zulu-Kaffirs, to be the 
sweetest of all the imphee kind; but I found the Boom- 
vwa-na and the Oom-see-a-na quite as sweet, and, in 
my estimation, their juices are superior to it in some 
