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576 SALCINIE.E (Skan). [Salix. 



Leaves glabrous or if pubescent wlien young soon 

 glabrescent : 

 Leaves up to 6 lin. broad, usually mucb narrower ; 

 disc-gland very small ; style none or very short : 

 Branchlets very slender and usually short ; leaves 



|-2 in. long, rarely longer ■ ... (1) capensis. 



Branchlets much stouter and usually long; leaves 



up to 4i in. long, rarely less than 2J in. long... (2) Woodii. 



■Leaves up to 7 J lin. broad ; disc-gland in the female 



flower relatiA^ely long ; style prominent (3) crateradenia. 



Leaves densely clothed on the underside with a some- 

 what persistent grey silky or felt-like pubescence : 

 Leaves narrowly lanceolate to broadly linear, ux> to 4^ 



in. long, usually more than 2 J in. long (2) Woodii, var. 



Wilmsii. 



Leaves oblontr-lanceolate to lanceolate, usually 1-1 J in. 



long or less, rarely up to 2^ in. long (4) hirsuta. 



1. S. capensis (Thunb. M. Cap. i. 139, and cd. Schult. 31); a 



shrub or tree up to 50 ft. high or more, very much branched; 



branchlets very slender, sometimes more or less pubescent when 



young, quite glabrous, often shining and reddish to dark brown 



when older ; leaves narrowly lanceolate or lanceolate, rarely broadly 



lanceolate, -usually f-1^ in., rarely up to 2 in. long, 1^-3 lin., rarely 



up to G lin. broad, often thin, becoming more or less coriaceous, 



acute to acuminate at the apex, more or less cuneate at the base, 



entire or closely or remotely serrulate, glabi-ous or sometimes slightly 



pubescent when young, green on both sides or green above and 



glaucescent beneath ; petiole J~2 lin. long ; stipules minute or ; 



catkins appearing with the leaves ; peduncles 2-12 lin. long, bearing 



1-5 shortly stalked or subsessile leaves similar to the others but 



usually smaller ; male catkins narrowly cylindric, i-H in- long; 



bracts ovate to elliptic or suborbicular, |-1 lin. long, |— f lin. broad, 



more or less villous inside, villous outside or glabrous except at the 

 base, sometimes nearly quite glabrous ; disc-glands tieshy, scarcely 

 ^ lin. long ; stamens 4-8 (usually 5 or 6) ; filaments villous below 

 the middle ; female catkins cylindric or ovoid, .^-1 in. long ; rhachis 

 glabrous to densely villous; bracts as in the male, soon deciduous; 

 disc-gland cup-shaped^ nearly or quite surrounding the pedicel, about 

 ^lin. long; pedicel ^-1-^ lin. long; ovary narrowly ovoid, 1-1 1 liu. 

 l<^ng, glabrous; style very short or none; capsule ovoid, lj-2i lin. 

 long. Fries in 6/vers. YeL-Alad Forhandl StocU. xili. (1856)121 ; 

 AndcrssJn Vet-AJcad. Handl Stuckh. yI {IS(j7) no. 1,13, f,l,^i/.ll, 

 and in DC. Prodr, xvl ii. 197 ; Sim, For. FL Cape Col. 328, /. 1 16 

 {var, a, normalis, Sim); Marloth, FL 8. Afr, i. 130, jiij9. 72-73; 

 Slan in Prain, FL Trap, Afr. vi. ii. 319. S. serjypllaca, Tliunh. 

 Prodr, 6, not of Linn, 



Vak. /3, gariepina (Auderss. in Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockh. vi. (1867) no. 1, 13, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 197); diffusely branched or the ultimate branches 

 straight, slender and often 1-2 ft. long ; leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear- 

 lanceolate, usually l|~2i in. long, often about 3 lin. but sometimes up to 5J lin. 

 broad, long-acumiaate, minutely serrulate ; catkins erect or j^uberect ; capsules 



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