The eulins are used for screens and pens. It is a native of Bengal, where it delights in, low, wet places, blossoms about the dose of the rains and the beginning of the cold season.—Roxb.
Saceliarum Sinense, Rozb. A plant introduced from China, named by Dr. Roxburgh. It was extensively distributed throughout India, and still is grown to sonie extent, as the canes aro large, rich in juice, and bard enough to resist the attacks of tho white ants. Its culins aro from 6 to 10 feet high. Leaves Hat, with niargins hispid.—Rorb.
Saecharum spicatum is the Mau-ken of the Chinese.
Saccharum spontaneum, Linn., Thatch grass.
S. biliorum, Funk. I Imperata spontanes, Trill; Kashiya, . BENG. Kan, . . PAN.% Thek-kay-gp., . Buam. Kahn ..... SIND.
Kase, Kus,. . . Relu-gaddi, . . . TEL.
Kasha, Kagan', Kaki vellum, . . „ This gra.ss grows iu every part of India ; is common on islands, ete., and when in blossom the rains has beautiful silvery appearance. Brooms aro made of tho calms, string of its leaves, and the whole is used to thatch with. Elephants, horses, and horned cattle do not object to it as fodder. It grows from 3 to 15 feet high, and it flowers in great profusion after the rains.
A familiar couplet, in which the hunger and avarice of Brahmans axe sportively alluded to, shows the correct pronunciation, as well as the season of its flowering— 'Aye kunagut phoole cas Bamhan buerhe choolhe pas.' ' The time (kuar) for performing the ceremony in honour of deceased ancestors has arrived, the CRS is in flower, and Brahmans surround the fire place2—Stewart ; Mason; Irvine ; Roxb. ; Elliot.
Saccharum violaceum, Tussac.
Otaheite sugar-cane, ENG. Turo, . KYAN of BORNEO. Tau, . FLORES ISLANDS. Tabu, Tubu, . . MALAY. Khush-bas, . . HIND. To, MARQUESAS, TAHITI. Ghanna, Rickhu, „ Ko, SANDWICH 'STANDS.
Puna, Ponda, . . „ The sugar-cane plant of Polynesia is grown in India, and is abundantly cultivated in the Saha runpur district ; it gives a larger percentage of sugar, but it is objected to by the natives as being too hard for the pressure of the native mill ; it is therefore principally cultivated for eating. In the Dehra Doon it has with much advantage been extensively cultivated for making sugar, but it is there pressed with European mills.
E. J. I?. ; Boyle, Ind. Fibres ; Cal. Cat. Ex., 1862 ; Powell; J. A. Murray; Smith ; Von Mueller.