SALICACEAE. — SALIX 47 
This fine species may be distinguished by its serrate acute leaves greenish yellow, 
glabrous and more or less reticulate beneath, by its thin slender flowering aments 
and by its small glabrous fruits. These are about 4 or 5 mm. long without the 
1-2 mm. long pedicels. The almost verticillate arrangement of the flowers on the 
rachis is the same as in S. magnifica Hemsley, and is more prominent in these 
two species than in the other species of the sections Magnificae and Eriostachyae. 
Salix Fargesii Burkill in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 528 (1899). — 
Seemen in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 277, t. 3, fig. A—r (1900); 1. c. XXXVI. 
Beibl. LX XXII. 30 (1905). — Léveillé in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LVI. 
299 (1909). ; 
Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1600-2300 m., 
June 1 and 5, July and October 1907 (No. 720; shrub 0.6-3 m. tall; 
with fruits; No. 720°; 9; No. 720^; 7; No. 720°; sterile); Changlo 
Hsien, thickets, alt. 600-2000 m., May 1907 (No. 2156; shrub 0.6-2.20 
m.; d); Fang Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1800-2300 m., November 1910 
(No. 4439; shrub 0.5-1.5 m., often prostrate or procumbent; sterile); 
same locality May 1900 and later (Veitch Exped. No. 1820; 7 and e 
flowers and fruits); Changyang Hsien (Veiteh Exped. No. 679; ex von 
Seemen). Eastern Szech'uan: Wushan Hsien, A. Henry (No. 
5678; co-type; with fruits): Tchen-keou-tin, P. Farges (No. 795, type; 
g ; ex Burkill). 
This handsome species is easily distinguished from S. moupinensis Franchet by 
its mostly larger leaves with a pale under surface, its thicker flowering aments and 
by the long silky hairs of the bracts. The ovaries mostly bear a longer style only 
cleft at the apex. Its nearest relative may be S. Ernesti Schneider which, like S. 
moupinensis Franchet, inhabits a different geographical region. 
Salix Ernesti Schneider, n. sp. 
Frutex breviter ramosus, erectus, 1.2-6.5 m. altus; ramuli intense 
purpurascentes, tantum initio sericeo-villosi, mox glabri, vetustiores 
purpureo-brunnei. Folia elliptica, obovato-elliptica v. late oblanceo- 
lata, basi obtusa v. acuta (v. in No. 2152 ex parte rotunda v. subaurita) 
apice subobtusa v. pleraque brevius v. longius acuta, supra sordide viri- 
dia, plus minusve, costa nervisque distinctius, puberula v. tomentella, 
subtus cinerea, sericea v. sericeo-villosa v. lanata et submicantia, deinde 
pleraque plus minusve glabrescentia, costa nervisque prominentibus, 
sed vix reticulata, nervis parallelis circiter 2 pro 1 cm., margine integra 
v. raro satis indistinete undulato-glanduloso-crenulata, minora latiora 
obtusiora 3-6 em. longa, 1.5-3 em. lata, maxima elliptica v. obovato- 
lanceolata acuta, usque 8-10 cm. longa et 2.2-4 em. lata v. ad 13 em. 
longa et 5 em. lata; petioli 5-10 mm. longi, undique v. tantum in sulco 
