in botany, a genus of the triandra digynia class. It has no calyx, but long down in place of it; and the corolla has two valves. There are two species, both natives of India. See Sugar.

Saccharum saturni, sugar of lead, is thus ordered to be made in the London Dispensatory; boil cerus with distilled vinegar, until the vinegar becomes sufficiently sweet; then filter the vinegar through paper, and after due evaporation set it to crystallize.