630 CXLI. SALICINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Salix. 
catkins }-1 in.; bracts lanceolate; fem. as long; bracts as in the male. Capsule 
is in., pale green.—Weeping Willow. 
5. S. elegans, Wall. Cat. 3699; shoots petioles and midrib above 
usually pubescent, leaves elliptic obovate or oblong acute or obtuse or tip 
rounded serrulate very glaucous and reticulate beneath, catkins slender on 
leafy peduncles, bracts small yellow, male compact, stamens 2 free, fem. 
much longer slender drooping, bracts minute yellow subpubescent, capsules 
shortly stipitate conic obtuse, stigmas subsessile 2-partite. Anderss. tn 
DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 256; Brand. For. Fl. 466; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 
377. S. kumaonensis, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 9701. S. denticulata, Anderss. 
in Act. Holm. 481, and in Bot. Reise Pr. Wald. 119, t. 89. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Nepal to Marri, alt. 6-11,000 ft., and Gilgit. 
A shrub or small tree, flowering after leafing ; branches black or brown. Leaves 
1-2 in., young membranous, old rigid; petiole } in. Male catkins lj m.; fem. 
3-5 in. Capsules } in.; stigmas spreading. 
VAR. Govaniana, Anderss, in DC. 1. c. 257; taller, leaves larger almost lanceolate 
more sharply serrulate more glaucous beneath. S. Govaniana, Wall. Cat. 3699. 
S. himalensis, Klotzsch in Herb. Berol. S.denticulata, var. himalensis, Anderss. m 
‘let, Holm. 482. S. elegans, var. himalensis, Anderss. Monogr.—Nepal and 
umaon. 
6. S. sclerophylla, Anderss. Monogr. 148; DC. Prodr. xvi. u. 248; 
branches stout glaucous, buds large, leaves small oblong quite entire 
glabrous base rounded or subcordate, catkins small sessile short ovoid-oblong, 
base not leafy, male erect, fem. curved, bracts obovate obtuse tips brown or 
not ciliate, capsules sessile conic beaked hoary, stigmas sessile stout 
spreading. Salix, No. 8 and 10, Herh. Strach. & Winterb. 
NonTH-WrsTERN HIMALAYA and TIBET; Laptal, alt. 15,000 ft., Strachey § 
Winterbottom ; Dras, alt. 10,000 ft., Thomson. 
A stout much-branched shrub, flowering before leafing ; branches glaucous. 
Leaves lin., rigid, pale beneath ; nerves strong, arched. Male catkins 4-3 in. Dis 
surrounding the base of the capsule, which is about 2 in. long.—Andersson compares 
this with the European S. repens, L., in habit; he makes 2 varieties, a. glabra, with 
leaves glabrous and bright green on both surfaces, and 8. pubescens, with rigid leaves 
apiculate rounded at both ends and white villous on both surfaces, but especially 
beneath. 
** Capsule stipitate (stipes very short in S. fragilis); style produced. 
S. FRAGILIS, Linz. Sp. Pl. 1017; a tree, branchlets smooth polished 
fragile at the insertion, leaves lanceolate caudate-acuminate glandular- 
serrate glabrous young hairy, stipules i-cordate deciduous, catkins OT 
leafy peduncles, bracts long narrow pale, male cylindric drooping, esc 
2—4 free, fem. longer slender, capsules narrowly conic shortly stipita 
glabrous narrowed into a 2-fid style, stigmas 2-fid. Anderss. ™ 09; 
rodr. xvi. ii, 209; Brand. For. Fl. 466; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. 60% 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1184. 
. Cultivated in LAHOUL and WrsrERN TriBET.—DrsrRIB. N. an 
Europe. . 
A tree, 80-90 ft. (in Europe), flowering after leafing; branches diva 
Leaves 3-6 in., green, silky when young; petiole often glandular at the top- 
Z-glandular. Capsule 1 in.— Crack- Willow. 
a W. Asia, 
ricate. 
7. S. hastata, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1017 ; shoots silkily hairy, leaves ebd 
to lanceolate obtuse acute or apiculate toothed glabrous or mi rb aP 
