Salix. | OXXVI. SALICINEH (Skan). 317 
1. SALIX, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 411. 
Flowers dicecious. Disc of very small fleshy gland-like scales. 
Male flowers : Stamens 2-8 or sometimes up to 12 ; filaments filiform, 
free or rarely more or less connate; anthers ovate, usually small. 
Female flowers : Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, 1-celled : placentas 
2; style often short or 0; stigmas 2, retuse or 2-fid. Ovules 
usually 4-8 on each placenta, 2-seriate. Capsule 2-valved. Seeds 
of the order.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed, 
pinnately veined, often narrow; stipules free, small and deciduous 
or larger leafy and persistent. Flower in catkins. Catkins usually 
dense and erect, axillary and sessile or terminating short branches, 
appearing before or with the leaves. Bracts small, entire or rarely 
toothed. 
Species 180-190, with the distribution of the order. 
Leaves lanceolate to ovate- or oblong-lanccolate, 
acute or acuminate, usually much more than 
1 in. long; male catkins usually more than 
1 in. long. 
BranolileGe and young leaves glabrous or only 
slightly pubescent, soon glabrescent. 
Capsule rather broad, abruptly terminating in 
a very short style or with a sessile stigma ; 
disc-glands usually much shorter than the 
pedicel. 
Leaves usually 2-3 in. long, 4-1 in. broad ; 
capsule 23-34 lin. long... : L. S. Safsaf. 
Leaves usually #-1} in. long and 13 I lin. 
broad ; capsule ‘1-23 hin long... .. 2, 8. capensis. 
Capsule (immature) narrow, gradually attenu- 
ated into a style about } lin. dongs disc- 
glands about as long as the pedicel.. ... 3. S. Hutchinsii. 
Branchlets and young leaves and often the adult 
leaves more or less conspicuously pubescent. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute to 
shortly acuminate, 2-3 in. (rarely up to 4 in.) 
long ; fruiting catkins less than 2 in. long ; 
capsule scarcely beaked. 
Capsule narrowly ovoid, nearly 4 lin. long 3 
leaves prominently reticulated... 4. S. Chevalieri. 
Capsule broadly ovoid, 2-3 lin. long; leaves 
not or only faintly reticulated. 
Leaves lanceolate, 4-9 lin. broad, soon 
glabrescent or nearly so; style nearly 
} lin. long wee . O. S. nigerica. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate to ‘broadly lanceo- 
late, 7-12 lin. broad, more or less 
densely grey- “pubescent even when . 
mature ; style 0.. . see .. 6. S. Murielit. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, long-acuminate, up to 
5 in. long, 1-1} in. broad ; fruiting catkins 
