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dersson), Nepal: without precise locality, 1821, N. Wallich (No. 3699*, type 
of S. elegans; with fruits); Punjab: Sirmore, G. Govan & Kamrup (No. 3699”, in 
part, Herb. Wallich). 
AFGHANISTAN. Kurrum valley, J. E. T. Aitchison (No. 413; c? and 9). 
So far as I know this species does not occur in the eastern Himalaya nor in China. 
Burkill (in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 528 [1899]), confused it with another species. 
For further information see the keys on pp. 77 and 78. 
No. 9 of Strachey & Winterbottom seems to be a smaller high-alpine form. The 
bracts are glabrous. It looks somewhat intermediate between S. denticulata and 
S. flabellaris Andersson. 112208 
Andersson described the following variety, of which I have not seen a specimen: 
Salix denticulata, var. himalensis Andersson in Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. 
Handl. 1850, 482 (1851). 
Saliz elegans, B G iana Wallich, Cat. No. 3699» (nomen nudum) (1829). 
Saliz himalensis Klotzsch in herb. (ex Andersson). i 
Salix elegans, var. himalensis Andersson in Jour. Linn. Soc. IV. 51 (1860); in 
Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. VI. 168 (Monog. Salic.) (1867). 
Saliz elegans, var. Govaniana Andersson in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 257 
(1868). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 630 (1888). 
INDIA. Kashmir: without precise locality, W. Hofmeister (ex Andersson); 
* Serinagur, 8000 feet,” G. Govan (No. 3699, Herb. Wallich, in part); Punjab: 
Sirmore, G. Govan & Kamrup (No. 3699", Herb. Wallich, in part, ex Wallich). 
“Taller, leaves larger, almost lanceolate, more sharply serrulate, more glaucous 
beneath," fide Andersson and Hooker. 
59. Salix dissa Schneider. See p. 52. 
60. Salix dyscrita Schneider. See p. 53. 
61. Salix Biondiana Seemen in Bot. Jahrb. XXXVI. Beibl. LX XXII. 32 (1905).— 
Léveillé in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LV1. 297 (1909). 
CHINA. Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, top of mountains, June 1900 
(Veitch Exped. No. 2045, co-type; bush 1.2-1.5 m.; à). Shensi: " Pao-ki-scen, 
cows July, Hugh Scallan (No. 5361, type; Herb. Giraldi; 9, eX 
Seemen). 
I have seen only a c^ co-type of this species (Herb. N. York Bot. Gard.), the 
flowers of which have a rather long ventral gland two-fifths the length of the 
bracts, and a very small dorsal gland from one-third to one-fourth as long 88 the 
ventral gland. The bracts are oblong, rounded at the apex, while von Seemen says: 
“ bracteis late ovatis irregulariter dentatis.” According to von Seemen the dorsal 
gland seems to be somewhat larger in his type, and the c? flowers have sometimes 
3 stamens, a fact 1 did not observe in the co-type. Among the plants collected by 
Wilson for the Arboretum I have not found a specimen agreeing with the co-type or 
with Seemen’s description. The fruits are described as “ sitzend, kurz dünn grau 
behaart,” the style as short and thick, the stigmas as “ oval, tief ausgerandet, 
aufrecht gabelig," the gland as “a basi lata truncata capsulae 14 aequante.” The 
species of this section are very difficult to distinguish, and a careful field study of 
them is needed. 
62. Salix erioclada Léveillé in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. III. 22 (1906); in Bull. 
Soc. Bot. France, LVI. 299 (1909); Fl. Kouy-Tchéou, 381 (1915). 
CHINA. Kweichau: “ Montée de Pia-Fong à Sa-Jang,” March 4, 1905, J. 
Esquirol (No. 567, type; <7). £ 
I have only seen a c? catkin and two small leaves of the type which were kindly 
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