578 SALiciNEiE (Skan). [Salix. 



entire, sometimes covered with greyish or yellowish silky hairs 

 when very young and not fully developed, quickly glahrescent and 

 often glaucescent beneath, coriaceous^ rather prominently veined ; 

 petiole" H- 5 lin. long; stipules minute, caducous; catkins appearing 

 with the^ leaves, axillary, shortly pedunculate, subtended by 1-4 

 small lanceolate entire leaves; male: narrowly cylindric, f-lj^ in. 

 long, 2-2| lin. broad; bracts ovate, f-H lin. long, rounded to 

 acute at the apex, densely villous on both sides ; disc-glands fleshy, 

 about I lin. long, the upper cylindric (sometimes wanting), the 

 lower broad entire or lobed ; stamens 4-9 ; filaments villous on the 

 lower half ; female: cylindric, rather lax, ^-l^ in. long; bracts as 

 in the male ; disc-gland half or completely surrounding the pedicel, 

 fleshy, notched or lobed ; pedicel | lin. long, 1-1^- lin. long in fruit ; 

 ovary narrowly ovoid, tapering at the apex, about 1^ lin, long, 

 glabrous; style 0; stigma 4-lobed ; capsule ovoid, l\"2h lin. long. 

 Wood, Handb. FL JSatal, 121. S. natalcnsisy Whnm. ex Andcrss, in 

 Vet.'ATcad. Handl StocM. vi. (1867) no. 1, 14. >S'. Zeyheri, Sond. ex 

 Fries in Ofvers. Yet.-Almd. ForhandL StocUt. xiii. (1856) 121; 

 Anderss.in Vet.-Ahad, Handl. Stoclch. vi. (1867) no. 1, 14 (S, Ztihert), 



VaPv. i3, "Wilmsii (Skan) ; leaves more persistently clothed especially on the 

 underside with a dense grey silky indumentunij at length glabresceiit and glauces- 

 cent, quite entire or sometimes very obscurely and remotely serrulate. S. Wibnsii, 

 Sccmen in Enyl. Jahrb. xxvii. Beihl. 64, 9. 



Kalahari Regioit: Orange Eiver Colony, without precise locality, Cooper, 

 3ir>0 ! Transvaal ; Bruderstroom, Houtboschberg, Nelson, 424 ! Houtboscb, 

 J^rhmann,65(}9 ! jMagalies Berg, Bifrke, 330 ! Zeylier, 1552 ! along the Yaal River, 

 near Bloemhof, Burtt-Dary, 1503 ! Crocodile River, Miss Leendertz, 715 ! Burlce \ 

 Lydenberg, at 5200 ft., Schlechter, 3938 ! Komati Poort, at 1000 ft., Schlcchter, 

 11847 ! Wonderboompoort, Pretoria, JRehmann, 4532 ! Derde Poort, near Pretoria, 

 MiBs Leendertz, 374 1 Yar. j3 : near Lydenberg, Wihas, 1350 1 1351, 1352. 

 Zoutpansberg District ; close to Haenertsburg, common along the Bruderstroom, 

 Bartt-Davij, 1266 ! River side, Umloinati Valley, near Barberton, 4000 ft., Galpin, 

 1278! 



Eastern Region : :N*atal ; Drakensberg Mountains, near Newcastle, Wilms, 

 2276 ! Biggarsberg Range, Relimann, 7055 ! on the banks of the Mooi River at 

 6500 ft., ScJdechter, 3341 ! Rovelo Hills, 7000 ft., Sutherland I Weenen County, 

 banks of the Tugela River, Rudatis, 1580 ! near Colenso, Wood, 4970 ! near 

 Durban, Guein-ius, 136. 



3. S. crateradenia (Seemen ia Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. Beibl. 64, 9) ; 

 a tree with dark red-brown branchlets which are shortly grey- 

 tomentose at the ends; buds also tomentose; leaves lanceolate or 

 oblong, up to 2| in. long, 7^ lin. broad, acute, narrowed to the base, 

 remotely serrulate, leathery, yellow-green and somewhat shining 

 above, grey-green beneath ; midrib paler, prominent on both sides ; 

 lateral nerves irregularly curved, prominent; petiole about ^ in. 

 long, at first shortly grey-tomentose, afterwards glabrescent ; male 

 catkins not seen ; female catkins appearing with the leaves, 

 terminating a shortly grey-hairy branchlet 5 lin. long bearing 3 

 or 4 oblong leaves up to 1 in. long and 5 lin, broad, broadly 



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