Saliz. | CXXVI. SALICINEH (Skan). 321 
erect, cylindric or ellipsoid, up to 14 in. long and 7 lin. broad, densely 
flowered ; rhachis densely villous. Bracts oblong, rather acute, 
narrowed at the base, membranous, thinly grey-pubescent, one-third 
as long as the capsule. Pedicel glabrous, half as long as the ovary. 
Disc-glands 2, posterior and anterior, broadly ovate, acute or split, 
one-third as long as the pedicel. Ovary conical-attenuated from an 
ovoid base, glabrous; style almost 0; stigmas short, divaricate, 
capitate. Capsule narrowly ovoid, nearly 4 lin. long, 14 lin. broad 
at the base. 
Upper Guinea. French Soudan: between Dialiba and Sangana, Chevalier, 
262! Keéniégué, Chevalier, 271! Mande Country; between Nyamina and 
Segou, Chevalier, 2666 ! 
9. 8. nigerica, Skan. Branchlets terete, the younger silky-hairy, 
the older reddish-brown and glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, acute 
or acuminate at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, remotely 
and minutely serrulate or entire, 14-3 in. long, 4-3 in. broad, more or 
less silky-hairy when young, finally glabrous and leathery ; petiole 
1-23 lin. long, puberulous or glabrous ; stipules wanting. Catkins 
appearing with the leaves; rhachis densely villous. Peduncle 
3? in. long, villous, bearing a few elliptic-lanceolate shortly petiolate 
leaves rounded or apiculate at the apex, 4-3 in. long, 144 lin. broad, 
more or less silky-hairy. Male catkins cylindric, $-14 in. long, 
23-3 lin. broad, densely flowered. Bracts suborbicular or obovate, 
nearly 1 lin. long, ? lin. broad, rounded at the apex, villous. Disc- 
glands anterior, subcylindric, up to } lin. long. Stamens up to 11 or 
more ; filaments densely villous on the lower part. Female catkins 
up to 14 lin. long whenin fruit. Bracts asin the male, quickly decidu- 
ous. Pedicel scarcely } lin. long, villous. Disc-glands forming a 
lobed cup surrounding and nearly as long as the pedicel. Capsule 
broadly ovoid, 23-3 lin. long, 14-12 lin. broad, minutely lepidote, 
Sometimes sparingly silky-hairy ; style nearly } lin. long; stigmas 
2-lobed. : 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Katagum District ; on banks of streams, 
Dalziel, 220! Lake Chad to Bornu, Talbot, 1493! 
Dalziel’s no. 199, from the banks of the Benue River at Yola, has male 
catkins only and these are more slender than those in his no. 220 and have 
narrower sparingly woolly or nearly glabrous bracts, while the flowers have 
only 5to 8stamens. The leaves present on the short catkin-bearing branchlets 
are narrower and longer. It is possibly a distinct species, but the material 
is inadequate for a complete description. Its Hausa name is “ ba ruana. 
6. S. Murielii, Skan. Branchlets terete, the younger densely 
grey-villous, the older glabrous and brown. Leaves ovate-lanceolate 
to broadly lanceolate, acute to acuminate at the apex, rounded to 
somewhat cuneate or sometimes slightly cordate at the base, entire, 
1}-3 in. long, 7-12 lin. broad, densely grey-silky hairy on both sides 
when young, less densely hairy when mature ; petiole 1-33 lin. long, 
FL. TROP. AFR. VI. SECT. II. x 
