SALICACEAE. — SALIX 95 
INDIA. Rajputana: near Adjmir (Ajmere), March 9-13, 1832, V. Jacque- 
mont (No. 96, type, c", ex Andersson). 
According to the description this variety is a quite glabrous tree, only the rhachis 
of the aments, the bracts and filaments being densely hairy. Not haying seen the 
type or Huegel’s No. 526 from the northwestern Himalaya, cited by Andersson in 
1860, I do not know whether it is a good variety or only a form of S. tetrasperma. 
Huegel's specimen may belong to a different variety or to another species from a 
different geographical region. 
Wight (Icon. Pl. Ind. Or. VI. 6, t. 1954 [1853]) figures a form of S. tetrasperma 
with the bract of the c? and 9 flowers slightly dentate at the apex. The same char- 
acter is found on plate 302, fig. 13-14 in Beddome's Fl. Sylv. S. Ind. V1. 302 
(1874). The bracts of the c? flowers, fig. 11-12 of this plate, are entire. Bed- 
dome's figures 1-10 represent S. ichnostachya Lindley, and only fig. 13-17 belong 
to S. tetrasperma. 
2. Salix pyrina Wallich apud Andersson in Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 1850, 
etl is V1. 4 (Monog. Salic.) (1867); in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 192 
? Salix disperma D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 58 (1825). 
Saliz tetrasperma, var. pyrina Andersson in Jour. Linn. Soc. IV. 41 (1860). — 
Hooke f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 627 (pro parte) (1888). — Brandis, Ind. Trees, 
6 (1906). 
INDIA. Nepal: without precise locality, 1821, N. Wallich (No. 3705, type of 
S. pyrina, à); without precise locality, G. S. Perrotet (apparently d" co-type, ex 
Andersson); without precise locality, F. Hamilton (type of S. disperma, ex Don). 
This species differs from the typical S. tetrasperma Roxburgh in its more tomen- 
tose young branchlets, leaves and petioles which are glabrous on the fruiting 
branchlets of S. tetrasperma, and in its entire or nearly entire leaves, which seem to be 
grayish and not very glaucous beneath. In the shape of the bracts and of the cap- 
Sules there seems to be no real difference. The ¢ plant is unknown to me, as I 
have seen only Wallich’s type by the kindness of the Keeper of the Herbarium of 
the Royal Gardens, Kew. The fruiting aments have short leafy peduncles and are 
from 6 to 8 em. long; the leaves are up to 11 cm. long and to 3.3 cm. wide; the peti- 
oles are from 5 to 9 mm. in length. ; 2 
According to the description I believe that S. disperma D. Don is the same species. 
Don's types were collected in Nepal by Hamilton and Wallich. 
3. Salix Mesnyi Hance in Jour. Bot. XX. 38 (1882). — Burkill in Jour. Linn. 
Sec: XXVI, 531 (pro parte) (1809). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Mise, Inform. 
- Ser. X. 255 (Fl. Kwangtung & Hongk.) (1913). 
CHINA. Eoia e An aes fl. Cantonensis,” January 1870, T. 
Sampson (9 type); Kwangsi: “juxta fl. Liang-fung,” June 1879, W. Mesny (No. 
16446, Herb. Hance; 9 type). 4 
By the kindness of Dr. Rendle, I have been able to see flowers and a photograp 
of both the types from the collection in the British Museum. The c" flowers “sy 
6 stamens which are finely hairy at the base. There are two rectangular ne 
glands two-thirds shorter than the somewhat obovate obtuse bract which is nearly 
glabrous on the outer surface, short-villose within and ciliate on the margins. 
The fruit does not show any remnants of a style or stigmas. The oblong ovary is 
glabrous, on a pedicel of about one-third the length of the ovary and ho oye 
longer than the gland. There is only one ventral gland which seems y ] 2 e 
same shape as that in sect. Tetraspermae; the bracts appear to be deciduous. 
This species has large leaves. It seems to be absent from central China. I do not 
