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2 to 3.5 em. long without the peduncle which is from 0.5 to 1 em. in length. The 
smaller leaves are ovate or ovate-lanceolate and acute, the largest broadly 
lanceolate, very acuminate, and up to 9 em. long and to 2.5-3 cm. wide. 
34. Salix babylonica Linnaeus. See p. 42. 
35. Salix alba Linnaeus, Spec. 1021 (1753). — Brandis, Forest Fl. Brit. Ind. 
466 (1874); Ind. Trees 637 (1906). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 629 (1888). — 
Seemen in Ascherson & Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. IV. 78 (1908). — Henry in 
Elwes & Henry, Trees Gr. Brit. & Irel. VIIL. 1759 (1913). 
For further synonyms see Seemen, I. c. 
INDIA. Kashmir: Mulbe to Dras, October 8-11, 1856, Schlagintweit (No. 
4970; sterile). 
AFGHANISTAN. Without precise locality, 1884-5, J. E. T. Aitchison (No. 
1118; sterile). 
The above specimens are referred not without doubt to this species, which may 
be planted in the northwestern Himalaya and Tibet according to Brandis and 
Hooker f. The Willow of Kiangsu and Chusan Archipelago referred by Debeaux, 
Burkill and others to S. alba belongs to S. babylonica Linnaeus (see p. 00). 
36. Salix sericocarpa Andersson in Jour. Linn. Soc. 1V. 43 (1860). — Hooker f., 
Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 637 (1888). 
? Saliz lenta Fries, Novit. Fl. Suec. Mant. 1. 78 (1832). 
Salix alba, var. eriocarpa Hooker & Thomson, in Herb. Ind. Or. 
INDIA. Kashmir: “ reg. temp., 600 ped." T. Thomson (types; c? and 9). 
AFGHANISTAN. Without locality, 1884-5, J. E. T. Aitchison (No. 1116; 
9); Kurrum valley, J. E. T. Aitchison (No. 1207; 9). 
In the types the leaves are more or less denticulate; the c! flowers have two 
glands, of which the dorsal gland is only a little smaller; the ovaries are nearly 
sessile and bear a short style with narrow shortly cleft stigmas. The specimen 
No. 1116 from Afghanistan has entire leaves which are more or less silky on both 
sides or are nearly glabrous above. The 9 flower and fruit show a short pedicel 
nearly as long as the single gland. This interesting species needs further inves- 
tigation. : 
S. lenta Fries is a very uncertain species, found in Nepal by Wallich, according to 
the author. The ¢ flowers are described as “ diandri." 
Sect. 8. SCLEROPHYLLAE Schneider, n. sect. eh 
Frutices mediocres v. parvi, erecti, breviter ramosi. Folia elliptica v. elliptico- 
oblonga v. ovata. Amenta coetanea, pedunculata v. c? sessilia; flores c' diandri, 
glandulis 2, filamentis sub medio pilosis; 9 glandulis 2 simplicibus v. interdum 
plurilobatis, ovariis sessilibus v. subsessilibus pubescentibus, stylis distinctis bifidis 
v. bipartitis, stigmatibus bifidis. j 
It is with a good deal of hesitation that 1 unite in this new section the following 
species. The value of the presence or absence of the second (dorsal) gland in the 
9 flower in taxonomic classification needs further investigation. It seems nly 
not sufficient to justify the large groups made by von Seemen (as Didymadeniae, 
Heteradeniae and Monadeniae) based on the glands of the 9 flowers. 
37. Salix sclerophylla Andersson in Jour. Linn. Soc. IV. 52 (1860); in Svensk. 
Vetensk. Akad. Handl. V1. 148, t. 8, fig. 82 (Monog. Salic.) (1867); in De Candolle, 
Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 248 (1868). — Brandis, Ind. Trees, 638 (1906). 
INDIA. Kashmir: “ Laptal, 15000 ped.,” Strachey & Winterbottom (No. 8 
in part, type; d");  Rimkim, 13500 ped.," Strachey & Winterbottom (No. 8, In 
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