324 OXXVI. SALICINES (Skan). | Sala. 
Stamens 4-6, mostly 5; filaments densely whitish- woolly at the base. 
Female catkins not known. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Adamaua, District, 4100 ft., Ledermann, 2613. 
10. S. kamerunensis, Seemen in Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 205. Shrub 
10-13 ft. high; bark of the older branchlets grey-brown; young 
branchlets red, somewhat shortly silky-hairy. Leaves shortly petio- 
late, lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, acute or long-acuminate, 
acute at the base, up to 3 in. long and in. broad, sharply serrulate, 
grass-green above, paler beneath, slightly silky-hairy when young, 
afterwards glabrous. Male catkins appearing with the leaves, ped- 
unculate, erect, cylindric, up to 2 in. long, ? in. thick, loosely flowered 
at the base ; rhachis densely tomentose. Peduncle up to 2 in. long, 
erect, densely and shortly tomentose, bearing small lanceolate 
leaves. Bracts ovate, rather obtuse, straw-coloured, veined, densely 
tomentose on the margin. Disc-glands 2, broadly elliptic, the 
anterior faintly and unequally toothed at the apex, the posterior 
more deeply incised, both one-third as long as the bracts. Stamens 
6-7, twice as long as the bracts ; filaments densely and long whitish- 
woolly at the base. Female catkins not known. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bambutto Mountains at about 6000 ft., 
Ledermann, 1751. 
11, 8. Ledermannii, Seemen in Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 204. Tree 12-40 
ft. high; branchlets dark brown, the younger shortly grey-tomentose, 
the older glabrous. Leaves petiolate, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate 
or oblong, acute at the apex and base or shortly acuminate at the 
apex, entire, up to 2? in. long and $ in. broad, pale green above, 
greenish-white beneath, shortly hairy when young, afterwards 
glabrous ; petiole up to 23 lin. long; stipules small, obliquely ovate, 
serrate. Catkins appearing with the leaves. Male catkins ped- 
unculate, erect, cylindric, up to 1} in. long, 24 lin. thick, densely 
flowered ; rhachis densely grey-tomentose. Peduncle up to 5 lin. 
long, densely and shortly grey-hairy, bearing some small leaves. 
Bracts broadly elliptic, rounded at the apex, yellow-brown, densely 
grey-tomentose. Dise-glands 2, posterior and anterior, broadly 
elliptic, toothed at the apex, about half as long as the bracts. 
Stamens 8-9 ; filaments densely woolly at the base. Female catkins 
pedunculate, erect, cylindric, up to 1} in. long, 33 lin. thick, some- 
what loosely flowered, rhachis densely and shortly grey-tomentose. 
Peduncle up to 1} in. long, leafy. Bracts as in the male catkins. 
Pedicel one-third as long as the ovary. Disc-glands 2, posterior and 
anterior, almost as long as the pedicel. Ovary conical, obtuse, 
glabrous; style short, thick, a quarter as long as the ovary; 
stigmas elliptic, thick, laterally curved, emarginate. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bambutto tai t about 6500 ft., 
Ledermann, 1610, 1646. ee 
