638 CXLI. SALICINE®. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Populus. 
The Lombardy Poplar, a pyramidal form of the Black Italian (P. nigra, L., var. 
pyramidalis, Spach, P. fastigiata, Desf.), is cultivated here and there in the NW: 
Himalaya, from Simla westward, and in Western Tibet up to 12,500 feet. H lim 
considered it to be wild in Affghanistan. The common spreading form is M i 
Western Asia and Central Europe. See Brand. For. Fl. 472, and Royle Ill. 344. 
1. P. ciliata, Wall. Cat. 2796; leaf-buds viscidly resinous, branches 
angled, leaves ovate or ovate-cordate acuminate unequally toothed glabro 
teeth gland-ciliate, base 3-nerved, stigmas 3-4 obcordate, capsules stipitat 
ovoid 3-4-valved. Brand. For. Fl. 475; Royle Ill. 346, t. 84°; Wes T 
DO. Prodr. xvi. ii. 329. P. pyriformis, Royle l. c. 344; Gamble Man. anl. 
Timb. 379. P. rotundifolia, Griff. Notul. i. 982; Itin. Notes 172, No. d 
Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 546. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 4-10,000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan. 545 
A tree, 60-70 ft., with a trunk attaining 10 in girth. Leaves 3-7 in., serve hort 
pairs above the basal; petiole 2-5 in., compressed vertically. Male catkins , 
bracts j in. ; fem. 6-9] in., disk toothed embracing half the ovary. Capsule 4-5 T» 
stipes as long. 
2. P. balsamifera, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1034; leaf-buds viscidly rem 
branches angled, leaves ovate acuminate obtusely toothed glabrous, | ed 
rounded or cordate, stigmas 2-3 2-lobed, capsules subsessile 2-4-va ve 2 
Brand. For. Fl. 416; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 379; Wesmael in Dt. 
Prodr. xvi. ii. 329. P. suaveolens, Loud. Encycl. 830. P. laurifolia, Ledeb. 
Fl. Altaic. 297; Icon. t. 479. 
Inner ranges of the N.W. HIMALAYA; from Kunawur, alt. 8-13,000 M wost 
wards, and in WESTERN TIBET, up to 14,000 ft., wild and planted. — DISTRIB. Ven 
and N. Asia, N. America. 2—5 in. 
A tree, 60-70 ft., strongly balsamic ; shoots glabrous or pubescent. Leaves pins 
rather coriaceous, pale, sometimes brown beneath ; petiole 2-5 in. Male ca cled 
sessile, drooping, rachis winged ; stamens 20-30, filaments slender ; fem. pedunc'e 
drooping ; fruiting 5-6 in. ; disk crenate. Capsule 4 in. 
3. P. euphratica, Oliv. Voy. iii. 449, t. 45, 46; leaf-buds pubescent, 
not viscid, branches terete, leaves polymorphous, stigmas 2-3 sem ambe 
capsule ovoid subsessile 2-3-valved. rand. For. Fl. 474, t. 63; Prodr 
Man. Ind. Timb. 378; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1194; Wesmael in DC. TAE 
xvi. ii. 326; Monogr. t.10-13. P. diversifolia, Schrank. Enum, 1842, -2% 
Balsamiflora deltoides, Griff. Notul. iv. 382; Itin. Notes 211, No. 13; Je 
Pi. Asiat. t. 526. 
; it 
Along the Indus Valley, in Scrxp, the PANJAB, and WESTERN TIBET, rand 
ascends to 13,500 ft., and planted in the N.W. Provinces.—DisTRrB. Wester 
Central Asia, and westward to Syria and Egypt. t 
A tree, 40-50 ft., trunk attaining 8 ft. in girth. Leaves of young shoo 8 
long and broad linear, or oblong entire and shortly petioled ; of older parts 2-3. 
ovate, oblong, rhombic, or orbicular, more or less lobed or cut, base cuneate blanceo- 
or cordate, 3-5-nerved ; petiole 1-2 in. Catkins lax-fld.; male fl., bracts o g-12- 
late, incised; disk orbicular, 8-cleft; stamens 8-12; fem. fl., disk tubu ar From 
cleft, membranous, caducous. Capsule large, 1-j in., turgidly lanceolate de 
Griffith's plate this is certainly his Affghan Balsamiflora deltoides e scription 
plume” which he never would have published), but I am puzzled by his da species 
of the buds as being gummy, and suspect he had P. balsamifera in his mind, 
he also collected in Affghanistan. 
3-6 in. 
2-3 in., 
th 
4. P. alba, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1034; leaf-buds shoots and leayes grin a 
white with cottony tomentum, leaves oblong-ovate or broadly o 
