Salix. ] CXLI. SALICINEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 637 
WESTERN TIBET; Nubra and Shayuk Valleys, alt. 11-12,000 ft., Thomson.— 
DistriB. Soongaria, N. Persia and the Caucasus. 
A shrub, 4-15 ft., flowering after leafing, branches strict, shoots silky. Leaves 
1-3 by 75-4 in., subsessile, rigid, sometimes denticulate. Catkins suberect, male 
2 in., fem. 1-1 in.; filaments united throughout. Capsules 4, in., longer than the 
bracts; stigmas red.— Andersson describes the capsules as sessile (which they are) in 
the diagnosis, but as distinctly stipitate in the remarks that follow it. 
. 26. S. divergens, Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 316; a small exces- 
sively branched shrub, leaves small oblong or obovate-oblong obtuse or 
acute glaucous green above quite entire beneath paler glabrous silky or 
glaucous, catkins on short leafy peduncles oblong-ovoid dense-fld., bracts 
rounded obovate villous with white hairs, filaments connate, capsules minute 
sessile ovoid-conic densely silky, style minute yellow, stigmas stout entire 
pot S. myricæfolia, Ånderss. in Act. Holm. 1850, 483; Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Iv. 53. 
NORTH-WESTERN HIMALAYA, in the interior ranges of Zanskar and Kishtwar 
alt. 12,000 ft., Thomson. 
A shrub, about a foot high, with widely divaricate rather stout branches. Leaves 
shortly petioled, 3-4 in., tip often rounded and apiculate. Male catkins 3-3 in. ; 
filaments united above the middle, fem. longer, bracts pale. Disk-gland pale, reaching 
the base of the capsule. Capsules 4; in., twice as long as the bracts.—Andersson 
Says of this that it is altogether analogous to the S. cwsia, Vill., of the Alps, nor 
except by the revolute margin of the leaf of the latter do I see how he distinguishes 
them specifically. S. myric@efolia, the earlier name of the author, is, I assume, 
abandoned by him as being quite inapplicable. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
S. UROPHYLLA, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3708; Anderss. in Act. Holm. 1850, 487 ; 
Monogr. 5; DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 194. The specimens in Herb. Wall. are in ripe fruit 
only, and too incomplete to found a species upon, and further are from a plant no doubt 
cultivated at Oude; they resemble S. acmophylia, but are worthless for any identifi- 
cation. Andersson refers to it the Javan S. Zollingeriana of Miquel, which from 
the description is tetrasperma. There is in Herb. Hook. a specimen of apparently 
he same species from Delhi marked as cultivated. 
S. CALOSTACHYA, Anderss. in Act. Holm. 1850, 489 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 42; 
Monogr. 5, from alt. 6000 ft. (Kahvata to Mahadeb, Jacquemont), described as 
with the habit of S. alba, but long-stipitate capsules, is probably tetrasperma. 
. 8. MYRTILLACEA, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc.iv. 51. The plant here described 
ìs from Sikkim (Lachen, alt. 12,000 ft.), in old fem. fruit only ; it resembles S. obscura, 
Anderss., but the shoots and very short petioles are glabrous, leaves 2-1 in., elliptic, 
apiculate, brown on both surfaces, It is omitted in DC. Prodr. 
D S. SERICOCARPA, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 43 (omitted by Andersson in 
- Prodr.), is from Kashmir, Thomson, alt. 6000 ft., and described as similar to S. 
alba, but differing in the leaves, bracts and capsules. In Hook. Herb. Andersson has 
edd it a var. of alba, from which it appears to me to differ in the densely silky 
rpels, 
in Ji FRUTICULOSA, Anderss, in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 53 (not of Kerner) (omitted 
15 DC. Prodr.), from Pindari (Kumaon), Strachey § Winterbottom, and Zanskar, alt. 
900 ft, Thomson, is perhaps S. Lindleyana. 
2. POPULUS, Linn. 
CHARACTERS As ABOVE (p. 626).—Species about 18, North temperate 
ons, 
