Salix.) CXLI. SALICINEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 627 
scattered clusters, bracts subspathulate, stamens 5-10, capsules long 
stipitate glabrous or puberulous, stigmas subsessile short entire. Anderss. 
Monogr. 1, f£. 1; DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 192 ; Wight Ic. t. 1954; Brand. For. 
Fl. 462, t. 58; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 493; Beddome FL Sylvat. t. 302; Wall. 
Cat. 3700 A in part, E, 3707, 9104, 9106; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 220; 
Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 9790; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 460; Forbes 
Salicet, Wob. t. 31. S. disperma, Don Prodr. 58; Anderss. in Act. 
Holm. 1850, 500; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 42. S. Horsfieldiana, Miq. l. c. 
461. S. nilagirica, Mig. Plant. Hochst. Exsicc. 1851, n. 982. S. tetra- 
sperma, 8. nilagirica, Anderss. Monogr. 3; DO. l. c. 193. 
Throughout TROPICAL and SUBTROPICAL INDIA, from the Panjab eastwards to 
Mishmi, Assam and Munnipore, ascending the Himalaya to 7000 ft., and southwards to 
Travancore and Singapore. (Absent from Ceylon.)—DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java. 
A small tree, 20-40 ft., flowering after leafing, trunk stout, attaining 10 ft. girth ; 
head large, branches suberect, Leaves 3-8 in., glabrous or the young as well as the 
branchlets more or less softly tomentose or silky; petiole 1-1 in.; stipules ovate or 
orbicular, deciduous. Male catkins 2-4 in., on leafy branchlets, sweet-scented ; 
bracts obovate or spathulate, pale, hairy ; fem. 3-5 in., bracts smaller; disk small, 
3-annular. Capsules very variable in length and breadth, }—} in.; stipes as long or 
shorter. Seeds 4—6.—4A polymorphous plant, of which the prevalent N.W. Indian 
form differs very much from the southern and eastern in the longer narrower leaf, 
like those of S. daphniphylla, pale green or yellowish when dry, with more oblique 
nerves, and much larger shortly stipitate pale capsules; the eastern and southern 
forms have (when dry) dark-brown usually shorter and often broader leaves shiniug 
above, with more horizontal nerves, smaller dark capsules, on often very slender 
Stipes; of these southern and eastern forms, some have glabrous branchlets and young 
eaves, in others they are tomentose or almost silky. Roxburgh describes the style 
as being as long as the capsule, and the latter as cordate at the base; the first character 
never applies, and the capsule is only cordate after dehiscence. Of the varieties 
founded by authors on looser or denser-fld. catkins and form of the leaves and cap- 
*ule none seem to me to be tenable. 
VAR. pyrina, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 42; shoots petioles young leaves 
beneath and rachis of catkins softly tomentose or woolly, capsules narrow, mature 
leaves often subsilky on both surfaces. S. pyrina, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3705 ; 
Anderss, in Act. Holm. 1850, 486; Monogr. 4; DC. Prodr. l. c. 193; Miq. Fl. Ind. 
at. i. ii. 461. S. Wallichii, Wimm. in Herb. Vind. S. lenta, Fries Nov. Fl. Sv. 
Mant. i. 78; Anderss. L. c. and Monogr. 4, f. 2.—Common from Nepal eastwards and 
southwards.— Andersson, who makes a variety of pyrina in Journ. Linn. Soc., quotes 
that Work in the Prodromus for it as a species. 
VAR. suaveolens, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soe. iv. 41; DC. l. c. 193; branches 
chestnut-red quite glabrous, leaves ovate-lanceolate 3 in. broad very coriaceous and 
shining at length glabrous and densely glaucous beneath, male bracts very broadly 
x Ate densely villous. S. suaveolens, Anderss. in Act. Holm. 1850, 491. S. Myurus 
Hugelii, Wimmer in Herb. Vind.— Ajmir and N.W. Himalaya. . 
Van. viridifolia ; shoots and young leaves glabrous, leaves lanceolate acuminate 
Thre’ pale yellow-green on both surfaces when dry.—Coimbatore, Herb. Wight.— 
15, Which is in male fl. only, may be a different species. There are scraps 1n Herb. 
aich under No. 3702, which consists of this, S. tetrasperma and iohnontachya. 
- SLABRESCENS, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3706, omitted by Andersson in his various 
Works, is probably a form of tetrasperma, said to be from both Oude and Rohilkunds 
with old hoary capsules and branches.— Andersson has written on the sheet “S. laurine 
Lagerostachya valde affinis," Wall. Cat. 3707 D. S. tetrasperma, var. pubescens, 
*» With large rounded stipules, is probably the same. 
a t, C USPIDATA, Wall. Cat. 3703 (omitted by Andersson) ; Don Prodr. 58. There 
ca o sheets from Herb. Wight; A is tetrasperma with long bracts and glabrous 
Ande m B consists of.leaves only, and is labelled by Andersson S. apiculata, 
