$22 CXXVI. SALICINEZ (Skan). | Sala. 
densely and shortly grey-villous ; stipules obliquely ovate, 2-44 lin. 
long, more or less glandular-denticulate, sometimes with glandular 
papilla on the upper surface, sometimes very small or wanting. 
Catkins appearing with the leaves. Male catkins cylindric, 1-3 in. 
long, 34-4 lin. thick, very densely flowered ; rhachis villous. 
Peduncle up to ? in. long, villous, bearing several obovate or elliptic 
shortly petiolate leaves 4-8 lin. long and 2-3 lin. broad, rounded and 
apiculate or acute at the apex. Bracts elliptic, obovate or ovate, 
1-1} lin. long, }-1 lin. broad, obtuse or rounded at the apex, densely 
covered with white woolly hairs. Disc-glands up to 4% lin. long, 
broad and flattened, entire, toothed or deeply lobed. Stamens 6-12 ; 
filaments densely covered on the lower part with white woolly hairs. 
Female catkins 14-2 in. long when in fruit ; rhachis villous. Ped- 
uncle 3-1} in. long, bearing several elliptic-lanceolate apiculate 
leaves up to 14 in. long and 7 lin. broad. _ Bracts elliptic, 1} ln. 
long, 3 lin. broad, obtuse, densely villous, quickly deciduous. Pedicel 
4-3 lin. long, villous. Disc-glands forming an irregular toothed or 
lobed cup one-quarter to one-half as long as the pedicel which it 
surrounds. Capsule broadly ovoid, 2-23 lin. long, 14-13 lin. broad, 
glabrous or sometimes rather densely villous; style 0; stigmas 
small, slightly lobed.—S. Safsaf, Forsk., var. hirta, Anderss. in Vet.- 
Akad. Handl. Stockh. vi. (1867) no. 1, 12, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. 
ii. 197. 
Nile Land. Without precise locality, Sabbatier. Nubia; near Khartoum, 
Schweinfurth, 866! between Berber and Khartoum, Schweinfurth, 511! 
Sennar ; common on the Blue Nile, Muriel, 818! S19! north of the mouth of 
the River Dinder, Broun! 
7. 8. Schweinfurthii, Skan. Young branches at first densely 
grey-tomentose, finally brown and glabrous. Leaves petiolate, 
oblong-lanceolate, long-acuminate, rounded at the base, serrulate, 
up to 5 in. long, 1-1? in. broad, at first densely villous on both sides, 
later glabrescent, rather thin; midrib conspicuous, flat above, 
prominent beneath ; lateral veins numerous, conspicuous but fine ; 
petiole 4-7 lin. long, more or less villous or glabrescent ; stipules 
semi-cordate, rounded or acute, 2-8 lin. long, sometimes minute or 
wanting, glandular-denticulate and sometimes with prominent 
glands on the sides. Male catkins wanting. Female catkins (in 
fruit) pedunculate, 1-24 in. long ; rhachis villous. Peduncle villous, 
3-1 in. long, bearing a few lanceolate leaves 3-14 in. long and 2-6 lin. 
broad. Bracts wanting. Disc-glands }-4 lin. long, forming a? 
irregular lobed cup. Pedicel nearly 1 lin. long, glabrous. Capsule 
ovoid, contracted above the middle into a beak, 2-24 lin. long; 
1}-1} lin. broad about the middle, glabrous; stigmas almost sessile, 
very shortly 2-lobed. 
Po Land. Nubia: Khartoum, Schweinfurth, 879! Kordofan, Kotschy, 
