318 OXXVI. SALICINEA (Skan). |  _—— [Salta 
up to 24 in. long; capsule distinctly 
beaked ... anc ape cce noe ahs 
Leaves elliptic or elliptic-ovate, broadly rounded at 
the apex, not more than | in. long ; male catkins 
4—} in. long... OG noe aes Soe SiG 
7. S. Schweinfurthii. 
8. S. coluteoides. 
1. 8. Safsaf, Forsk. Fl. Agypt.-Arab. lxxvi. Tree up to 30 ft. high 
or more, with the habit of S. alba; branchlets glabrous, or villous 
when young, brown or reddish-brown. Leaves lanceolate, acute to 
long-acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, more or less serrulate, 
especially towards the apex, or almost entire, often furnished with 
vlands at the base, 1-4 in. (usually 2-3 in.) long, 4-1 in. broad, quite 
glabrous or sometimes villous when young, light green above, paler 
beneath and sometimes glaucescent ; petiole 1-6 lin. long, often 
reddish, glabrous or sometimes more or less pubescent ; stipules 
semi-cordate, up to 2 lin. long, often minute or wanting, glandular 
denticulate and sometimes with prominent glands on the sides. 
Catkins appearing with the leaves, pedunculate. Peduncle 4-2} in. 
long, bearing a few usually oblanceolate apiculate leaves smaller 
than the ordinary leaves. Male catkins cylindric, 14-23 in. long ; 
rhachis sparingly pubescent. Bracts ovate to ovate-orbicular, and 
1-14 lin. long, j-1 lin. broad, obtuse to acuminate, concave, villous 
inside, sparingly villous to nearly glabrous outside. Disc-glands 
forming a somewhat irregular cup around the base of the stamens, 
about $ lin. long, or the anterior suborbicular about } lin. across and 
the posterior rather smaller and 2-lobed. Stamens 6-7 or more ; 
filaments shortly villous on the lower part. Female catkins (in fruit) 
1}-2 in. long; rhachis sparingly and shortly pubescent or nearly 
glabrous. Bracts ovate or broadly ovate, about 1 lin. long and 
broad, rounded or subacute, scurfy. Dise-glands forming a thick 
more or less irregular cup surrounding the base of the pedicel, }-} lin. 
long. Pedicels 1-13 lin. long, glabrous or sometimes villous at 
the base. Capsule ovoid, 24-3} lin. long, 11-2 lin. broad, rounded 
or sometimes narrowed at the base, glabrous.—Trautv. Salicetum, 
6, t. 2; Anderss. in Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockh. vi. (1867), no. 1, 
10, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 196 (incl. var. nilotica, Anderss.) ; Solms 
in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 187; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 
151; Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. 1183; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 189; 
Muschler, Man. Fl. Egypt, i. 242. S. subserrata, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 
671; Poir. Encycl., Suppl. v. 58; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 
1030. 8. octandra, Sieb. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 276. %. 
egyptiaca, T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 647; not of Linn. 4‘. 
huallensis, Seemen in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. Beibl. 57, 45, and XXX. 
291; Warb. in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 219. 
Nile Land. Upper Egypt: banks of the Nile at Abou-Farouh, Kralik! 
Nubia: banks of the Nile near Amada, Kralik! Gherri Pass, N. Lat. 16°, 
Grant! El Korehr and near Ibrim and Tingur, Ehrenberg; Abyssinia: 
