172 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 
INDIA. Kashmir: Kishtwar “alt. 6-11000 ped." T. Thomson (c? and 9 
types, ex Andersson); "Tibet, Ladak, Yuru Kiom via Kandzi up the Timti La 
pass,” July 2, 1856, Schlagintweit (No. 5261; with fruits); “Tsanskar, Sulle to 
Padum," June 22-24, 1856, Schlagintweit (No. 6744; sterile). 
This seems to bea very uncertain species. I have received from the Kew Herba- 
rium a specimen which is supposed to be Andersson's type. But there are three 
different things upon this sheet. First a fruiting branch to which apparently 
belongs the small label “ Ind. Valley, 7/7/48.” "These fruits agree very well with 
those of the co-type of var. breviuscula, and may belong to Andersson’s form 
a. angustifolia (1860). The ovaries are subsessile, the stigmas rather narrow and as 
long as the short style. The bracts are ovate-oblong, rather obtusish, and light 
brown. There are also two c? specimens. To one seems to belong a small label, 
“ Kishtwar 8-9000, 19/6/48.” Of this specimen the filaments are totally united, 
only the anthers being free, and are hairy in the lower part. The gland is rather 
long and narrow, and half as long as the obovate-oblong short silky dark-tipped 
bract. The old branchlets of both these c? and 9 specimens have the same pur- 
plish color and are somewhat pruinose; the young twigs are distinctly tomentose; 
the short stipules of the 9 branch are ovate, acute, or semi-cordate and glandular- 
serrate; the catkins have short leafy peduncles and are 5-6 cm. long and 1 cm. 
thick. This c? form does not agree with Andersson’s description. To the second 
d' specimen apparently belongs the main label: * Kishtwar, 6-11000 ped., coll. 
Thomson,” which would be Andersson’s type. But Andersson says in his 
description: “ Rami . . . in speciminibus masculis a me visis molliter incano- 
pubescentes . . .” and “Stamina 2, filamentis usque ad medium connatis 
glabris . . .” In the specimen before me only the very young twigs are tomentose, 
the * rami " being glabrous, purplish and somewhat pruinose as in the other forms. 
The filaments are united only at the very base and are very hairy on the lower 
third. The gland is shorter and somewhat broader than in the other c' specimen, 
the obovate-oblong light-brown bracts are very silky on the inner surface and 
nearly glabrous except at the very base on the outer surface. The young leaves 
show no difference in shape, color, etc. from those of the other specimens. 
There is perhaps another &' form mixed with those mentioned above, repre- 
senting Andersson's @ type with pubescent branches and glabrous filaments 
united for half of their length. 
Salix oxycarpa, var. breviuscula Andersson in Jour. Linn. Soc. IV. 46 
(1860); in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 310 (1868). ii 
: He Kashmir: “ Zanskar, alt. 10-14000 ped." T. Thomson (fruiting 
ype). 
According to the co-type this variety agrees well with the 9 form mentioned 
above. Schlagintweit's No. 5261 differs slightly in the very sessile stigmas. 
the d' specimen with the completely united stamens does belong to the same 
form, this variety could be kept as a distinct species much like S. pycnostachya 
Andersson, but differing in its hairy ovaries. Further study of good material is 
needed to prove whether this 9 plant belongs to the typical S. orycarpa or to 8 
different species. 
173. Salix myricaefolia Andersson in Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 1850, 483 
(1851); in Jour. Linn. Soc. IV. 53 (1860). 
Saliz fruticulosa Andersson in Jour. Linn. Soc. IV. 53 (1860), quoad plant. 9. 
Saliz divergens Andersson in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 316 (1868). — 
Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 637 (1888). — Brandis, Ind. Trees, 639 (1906). 
INDIA. Kashmir: “ Kishtwar, 12000 ped.," T. Thomson (c? and 9 types of 
S. divergens); “ Zanskar, 15000 ped.,” T. Thomson (9 type of S. i of 
