Saliz.} CXXVI. SALICINEH (Skan). 323 
Kotschy’s no. 436, also from Kordofan, probably belongs to this species, 
oe differs in having much smaller leaves. Like his no. 439 it bears no 
catkins. 
Solms (in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 187) mentioned under the name of 
8. nilicola a willow with long acute toothed leaves and very long catkins of 
which specimens were collected by Ehrenberg in Dongola. It is possible that 
it is the same as S. Schweinfurthit. 
8. 8. coluteoides, Mirb. in Mém. Mus. Par. xiv. 462, t. 20. Tree 
or shrub; branches slender, reddish-brown, glabrous. Leaves 
petiolate, elliptic, entire, mucronate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, 
cuneate at the base, the larger #-1 in. long and 4-5 lin. broad, thin, 
glabrous, somewhat glaucous beneath, faintly veined; petiole 
i-2 lin. long; stipules minute. Male catkins appearing with the 
leaves, terminating slender leafy peduncles or branches } to nearly 
2 in. long, cylindric, $-1 in. long, rather few-flowered, somewhat 
interrupted at the base; rhachis pubescent. Bracts deeply concave, 
suborbicular, #—1 lin. long and broad, obtuse or rounded at the apex, 
purplish or rose-coloured, sparingly pubescent. Disc-glands fleshy, 
{+} lin. long, both posterior and anterior divided into 2 or 3 cylindric 
or flattened bodies. Stamens 5-11; anthers large; filaments very 
densely clothed in the lower part with long woolly whitish hairs. 
Female catkins ? Ovary pedicellate, glabrous, ovoid ; pedicel 
scarcely longer than the disc-gland; style short; stigmas thick, 
undivided. Capsule less than 1 lin. long.—Trautv. Salicetum, 16. 
S. senegalensis, Mert. ex Anderss. in Vet.-Akad. Hand]. Stockh. 
vi. (1867) no. 1, 12, t. 1, fig. 10, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 197 ; Seemen 
in Fedde, Repert. Nov. Sp. v. 133. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perroltet; on the banks of the Senegal River at 
Dagana, Roger! Lower Senegal and Cayor; Mbohou, Chevalier, 2667 ! 
Imperfectly known species. 
9. 8. adamauensis, Seemen in Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 205. Shrub 6-13 ft. 
high; branches erect; bark of the older branchlets: red-brown ; 
Younger branchlets grey-brown, shortly grey silky-hairy. Leaves 
shortly petiolate, lanceolate and long-acuminate or the lower oblong 
or oblong-lanceolate and shortly acuminate, all acute at the base, 
entire, up to 4 in. long, 10 lin. broad, pale green above, glaucous 
beneath, the younger shortly grey silky-hairy, the older glabrous ; 
petiole up to } in. long. Male catkins appearing with the leaves, 
pedunculate, erect, cylindric, 1} in. long, 24 lin. thick, rather loosely 
flowered ; rhachis at first shortly grey-hairy, afterwards glabrous. 
Peduncle up to 5 lin. long, bearing a few small lanceolate leaves. 
Flowers recurved. Bracts ovate, straw-coloured, whitish-woolly 
on the margin. Disc-glands 2, narrowly ellipsoid, obliquely acute 
or emarginate at the apex, about one-third as long as the bracts. 
