40 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 
SALIX L. 
Salix Wilsonii Seemen in Bot. Jahrb. XXXVI. Beibl. LXXXII. 28 
(1905). — Léveillé in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LVI. 301 (1909). 
Salix Mesnyi Burkill in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 530 (pro parte, non Hance) 
Sole vee Léveillé in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. X. 473 (1912). 
Western Hupeh: Ichang, side of streams, alt. 300 m., April and 
May 1907 (No. 2121; tree 6.5 m. tall); Hsing-shan Hsien, woodlands, 
alt. 1300-1600 m., woodlands, May 1907 (No. 2140; tree 13 m. tall, 
girth 1.8 m.); same locality, A. Henry (No. 3442); without locality, 
April 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 334, in part [juvenile flowers only in 
Herb. Arnold Arboretum]); 415*, ex von Seemen; 334 and 415* are co- 
types); without locality, A. Henry (No. 246, No. 1277, type, ex von 
Seemen, No. 3538). Kweichou: without locality, E. Faber (No. 116; 
tall tree; fruits). Kiangsu: without locality, d’Argy (“vulgo Se Me 
Jam Zu; on fait du thé avec les feuilles "; type of S. Argyi, & and 9); 
Nanking, E. Faber (No. 901; ?). Chekiang: vicinity of Ningpo, 
1908, D. Macgregor (fruits). 
This species is certainly very nearly related to the Japanese S. glandulosa See- 
men, which is said by von Seemen to occur in Shensi, but it seems to differ in the 
Shape of the old leaves and of the stipules. The latter are wanting or small in 
S. Wilsonii, which has no glands on the petioles, while in S. glandulosa the semi- - 
cordate stipules are mostly distinctly developed, and the petioles bear glands 
which often are somewhat leaf-like. Von Seemen did not compare S. Wilsonii with 
S. glandulosa and with S. Rosthornii Seemen (in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 276, t. 2, E-H 
[1900]), which was collected by von Rosthorn's men (No. 1512) in southwestern 
Szech'uan, Nanch’uan. I have a strong belief that it is the same as S. Wilsontt, 
although 1 have seen only a leaf of it. S. Rosthornii Seemen would be the older 
name. 
This is the common Willow of the mountains of western Hupeh and eastern 
Szech'uan, where it is abundant on the banks of streams and mountain torrents - 
between 1200 and 2000 m. altitude. It is a rather low tree with a short, very thick 
trunk and very numerous and thick ascending spreading or spreading branches 
and slender branchlets. Pictures of this tree will be found under Nos. 512, 515, and 
520 of the collection of my photographs and in my Vegetation of Western China, 
Nos. 456, 457, and 458. E.H 
Salix paraplesia Schneider, n. sp. 
Arbor 6-7 m. alta. Planta ¢ glabra, ramulis foliis juvenilibus pe- 
duneulisque iis plantae 9 simillimis, vide inferius. Amenta coetanea, 
densiflora, pulchra, pedunculis 1-1.5 em. longis foliatis suffulta, 3.5-6 
cm. longa, circiter 1-1.2 cm. crassa; flores ~ 5-7andri; filamenta 
basi pilosa, bracteis subduplo longiora, antheris flavis ovalibus coro- 
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