632 CXLI. SALICINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Salix. 
lanceolate acuminate reticulate above silvery-silky beneath, margins entire 
revolute, stipules linear-lanceolate (or j-cordate), male catkins sessile, 
bracts brown- or black-tipped silkily ciliate, stamens 2 free yellow, fom. 
much longer subsessile cylindric, capsules subsessile tomentose, sty e 
slender, stigmas slender spreading. Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 264; 
Brand. For. Fl. 470; Gamble Man. Ind. Vimb.377; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 
t. 597 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1191. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Jamu westwards, alt. ‘5-9000 ft.— DraTniB. N. and 
W. Asia, Europe. . 
A shrub or small tree, flowering before the leaves, branchlets slender flexible. 
Leaves 4-5 in., pubescent or glabrate above. Male catkins 1 in., erect, golden 
yellow; disk-gland narrow; fem. 2-4 in. Capsules 1 in., beaked, narrowed into the 
style.— The Osier. . 
Var. Smithiana; stipules $-cordate, leaves broader, style shorter. Anderss. n 
DC. l. c. 267. S.Smithiana, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. 1008; Anderss. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. iv. 48.—Sikkim, alt. 5-8000 ft.—Brandis refers a Sikkim willow collecte 
by me at 5-8000 ft. in Sikkim to this. Andersson regards the European Smithiont 
which is common in osier-grounds, as a hybrid between viminalis and Caprea. 
Sikkim plant is probably S. eriophylla of the Khasia Mts. 
ll. S. obscura, Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 269; a diffuse shrub, 
shoots tomentose, leaves elliptic or linear-lanceolate acute dull green a ove 
brown when dry, beneath glabrous or subsilky reddish or glaucous, pi te 
entire or very remotely toothed, fem. catkins sessile, bracts minute acne 
black tips hairy, capsules small sessile broadly ovoid puberulous, sty 
slender thickened upwards, stigmas very short erect entire. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Lachen, alt. 9-14,500 ft., J. D. H., Pantling. hove 
Branches stout, smooth, bark black. Leaves 2-3 in., midrib pubescent ain: 
young villous and somewhat shining beneath; stipules not seen. Fem. cat the 
1-1} in., narrowly cylindric. Capsules about 35 in., conic-ovoid, narrowed in 
style.— Possibly a form of S. viminalis. 
12. S. sikkimensis, Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 269 ; branches 
very stout angled glaucous, leaves (young) ovate-lanceolate obtuse we 
entire glabrous above densely silkily villous and coppery beneath, ons 
catkins subsessile with deciduous basal leaves stout curved villous, sane 
2 free, bracts obovate-cuneate villous tip toothed densely villous with ids 
hairs, fem. as long but narrower, capsules sessile conic densely br mi 
villous narrowed into the deeply cleft style, stigmas sub-2-fid bro 
spreading. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 9-14,000 ft., J. D. H., &c. t, shining, 
A tree, becoming shrubby at higher elevations, branches smooth, erect, $ about 
bark very dark. Leaves (not mature) 1-1} in., dark brown when dry. Catkins y the 
lin., silky; male very stout, $ in. diam. Capsules } in., nearly hidden b 
villous bracts. Anthers linear-oblong. Style nearly as long as the capsule. 
. r. 
13. S. Daltoniana, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 49 ; be P roig 
xvi. ii. 269; branches black, leaves lanceolate acute, margins i ins 
entire or minutely glandular-serrulate silky and coppery benea blong oF 
on leafy peduncles very long slender flexuous, bracts linear“ 11 sessile 
spathulate yellow-brown tip notched or crenate hairy, capsules sma slendet 
narrow silky at length glabrous, style very slender cleft, stigmas 
flexuous entire or 2-fid. 
. Distrib. 
a En HIMALAYA, alt. -14,000 ft., J. D. H. Bnoraw, Grifith (Kew 
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