636 CXLI. SALICINEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Salix. 
A prostrate shrub with branches about a foot high, or (according to Brandis) 
with a stout trunk, and prostrate and rooting rarely erect brown branches. Leaves 
1 in., rather broadest above the middle, narrowed at both ends, dull green above, 
margin narrowly revolute, hoary beneath. Male catkins 14-23 in., flexuous; 
filaments free, much longer than the bracts, and anthers didymous, brownish ; fem. 
shorter, more dense-fld.; bracts rounded, longer than half the white capsule.—This 
has no affinity with the preceding species. 
Sect. III. SYNANDRÆ. Stamens 2, filaments more or less connate. 
93. S. pyenostachya, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 44; DC. 
Prodr. xvi. ii. 309; branches shining, leaves lanceolate subacute flat quite 
entire or serrulate glabrous young silky beneath, catkins stout males on 
leafy peduncles cylindric, bracts minute obtuse yellow tips brown ciliate, 
filaments connate, capsules sessile ovoid silky, style short tip thickened, 
stigmas short broad erect 2-fid. Brandis For. Fl. 470. 8. purpurea, L.?, 
Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. § T. 
WESTERN HiMALAYA in the drier regions, and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 12-15,000 ft., 
wild and cultivated. 
, A shrub, 6-7 ft., or a small tree attaining 16 ft., with a trunk 2 ft. girth and 
divaricate branches, flowering after the leaves; shoots silky ; branches violet brown 
red or blackish, Leaves 2-3 in., midrib prominent; nerves many, oblique, incon- 
spicuous ; petiole 1-1 in. and midrib often with galls. Catkins nodding; bracts 
oblong ; filaments united throughout; fem.2 in. Capsule +}, in., subacute, base 
gibbous.—Andersson «compares this species with the European S. rubra and s. 
daphnoides, 
Var. alpina, Hook. f.; Anderss. in DC. 1. c. ; smaller, branches slender yellowish, 
leaves pubescent on both surfaces, male catkins very short with brown rounde 
obovate bracts. 
24. S. oxycarpa, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 45; DC. Prodr. 
xvi i. 310; shrubby, branches hoary or glabrate, leaves lanceolate acute 
entire or subserrate old rigid glabrous shining glaucous beneath, stipules 
small }-lanceolate, catkins (appearing before the leaves) sessile very long 
flexuous lax-fld., bracts yellow or brown, capsules large sessile elongate- 
conie acute silky, style very short, stigmas short subclavate. Brandis 
For. Fl. A71. $S. zygostemon, Boiss. Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kishtwar, alt. 6-11,000 ft., Thomson. 
Brandis describes this as differing from S. pycnostachya only in the flowers 
appearing a little before the leaves, the larger more pubescent serrate leaves, black 
bracts of the male, and brown of the fem. catkins, and which latter attain 4 in. 
The filaments are united to the middle, and capsules } in. long.—Andersson describes 
it as very close indeed to the N. Persian S. zygostemon, Boiss.; he makes 2 varieties, 
B. serrata (serratifolia in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 46) with sessile very lax catkins 
4-5 in., leaves 3 in. exactly lanceolate acutely glandular-serrate, midrib and nerves 
yellowish elevated glaucous beneath, capsules rufescent glabrous, from Simla, 8000 ft., 
Thomson, and which I cannot distinguish from S. daphnoides ; and y. breviuscula, 
with narrow lanceolate remotely serrulate leaves glabrous on both surfaces opaquely 
glaucous beneath, shorter catkins, and silky at length glabrate capsules. 
25. S. angustifolia, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 699; branches slender 
glabrous, leaves very narrowly linear subsessile silky or glabrate, mir 
prominent, margins revolute, catkins subsessile leafy at the base male very 
small, bracts oblong or linear obtuse glabrous yellow, filaments upon 
capsules sessile silky narrowed into the short style, stigmas spreading €.* t 
Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 315; Brand. For. Fl.471 ; Boiss. Fl, Orient 
1v. 1187; Trautvett. Salicet. 627, t. 3. 
