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(1) I. KcENiaii. (Nees.) 



Ident. Nees flor. Afr. I. 89. 



Syn. Saccharum Kcenigii, Ret%. — S. Thunbergii, Mett.. — S. 

 cylindricum, Roxb. I. o. p. 234. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect, simple : leaves linear, attenuately 

 plaited at the base, short acuminated at the apex : sheaths densely 

 hairy at the margins : panicle spiked, elongated, cyHndric : 

 pedicels scarcely dilated at the apex : glumes coloured, four times 

 shorter than the involucrating hairs : styles a little longer than the 

 glume. 



Bengal. Peninsula. Much used for thatching houses. 



GEFUS LIV. AMBLTACHTKUM. 



Diandria Dig'ynia. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Eacemes twin, fasciculate-digitate : spikelets at- 

 tached to the jointed rhachis, solitary, 1 -flowered, cylindric : glumes 

 2, somewhat cohering into a tube, obtuse at the apex, ciliated and 

 cleft : valves 2, lower 1 -nerved, awned from the apex, upper nerve- 

 less : stigmas plumose : caryopsis oblong,, glabrous, smooth. 



(1) A. MAlfGAXOEENSE. fHochst.J 



Ident. Hochst. in Steudel 1. c. p. 413. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect, thin, simple, or somewhat branched, 

 half-a-foot, glabrous: sheaths and lanceolate leaves hairy from 

 glands, the latter lanceolate, flat, straws very short : glumes tawny- 

 hirsute : awn twice the length of the spikelets, somewhat genicu- 

 late, hirsute below. 



Mangalore. 



GEFtJS Lt. SACCHARUM. 



Tvlandria. Dlg'ynta. Sex: Syst: 



Deri/o. From the Arabic Suhlcm; from whence the English word 

 Sugar. 



Gen. Chae. Spikes panicled, compound : spikelets more or less 

 lanceolate, girt at the base with long wool, rest naked or villous, 

 twin at the joiat of each rhachis, one sessile, the other pediceUed : 

 glumes acute, equal: florets two, lower one neuter 1-valved muti- 

 cous, upper hermaphrodite 2-valved : valve either muticous or 



