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Salix.] SALiciME^ (Skan). 579 



densely grey-tomentose ; bracts wanting ; capsule ellipsoid, obtuse, 

 at first shortly gi'ey -hairy, afterwards glabrescent ; pedicels about 

 two-thirds as long as the capsule ; style distinct ; stigmas sliort, 

 thick, laterally curved, emarginate; glands about a quarter as long 

 as the pedicel which they completely surround as a little fleshy cup, 

 higher in front, emarginate above, 



Kalahari Eegion : British Bechuanalandj Passarge, 41 of 1896, 



Kative name ^^Macliogari. 



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4. S. hirsuta (Thunb. Prodr. G) ; a shrub about 6 ft. high ; branches 

 at first densely whitish-villous, later glabrescent, brown and some- 

 what rugose ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, sometimes ovate-lanceolate 

 or lanceolate, the largest 2\ in. long and 1 in. broad, usually 1-1 i 

 in. long and 5-6 lin. broad, smaller on the catkin-bearing branchlets 

 or peduncles, mucronate, acute or acuminate at the apex, rounded to 

 cuneate at the base, entire or sometimes remotely and obscurely 

 serrulate, thinly covered above and densely beneath wiih grey silky 

 hairs, sometimes subglabrescent above; petiole 1^-3 lin. long ; 

 stipules brown, membranous, obliquely ovate, f— 1 lin. long, silky- 

 hairy, soon deciduous; catkins appearing with the leaves; peduncle 

 4-6 lin. loiifj, bearini^ 2—4 subsessile lanceolate leaves, 6-9 lin. long 



and 2|^-3 lin. broad ; male catkins cyliiidric, 8-15 lin. long, 2-3 lin, 

 broad, densely white-tomentose on rhachis and bracts ; bracts ovate 

 to obovate, about 1 lin. long and f lin. broad ; disc-glands fleshy, 

 about \ in. long, irregularly lobed, crenulate or emarginate ; stamens 

 3-7 ; filaments villous ; female catkins (in fruit) ovoid-cylindric, 

 6-12 lin. long, rather dense; disc-gland rather more than \ lin. 

 long, irregularly toothed, completely surrounding the pedicel ; pedicel 

 -^f lin. long; capsule ovoid, \h~-^ lin. long, 1|- lin. broad, glabrous. 

 ThunK FL Cap. eel SchulL 31 -/WilkL % PL iv. 695; Fries, Nov. 

 FL Suec, Mant, i. 77, and in Of vers, VeL-Akad, Forhandl. StocJch. 

 xiii. ; (1856) 120 ; Trautv, Salicetum, 17 ; Drege^ ZiceiPji. Pociimeiile, 

 217; Kraiiss in Flora. 1845, 88. S. capensiSj var. Jiirsula, Anderss, 

 in Vet.-AJcad, HandL Stoclch. vi. (1867) no, 1, 14, and in DC. Prodr, 

 xvi. ii. 198 ; SirUy For, FL Cape Col. 329. S. rniicronafa, Drege, he. 

 68, 70, 109, j)a?-% not of Thunh. 



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Var. P, parvifolia (Skan) ; leaves mueli smaller (only 5-8 lin. long and lJ-2 

 lin. broad), less densely covered with white silky hairs, often soon glabrescent. 

 S.capensis, Thunb. y var, miicronatay forma pudesccns, Anderss. in Vet.-Akad, Handl, 

 Stockh. vi. (1867) no. 1, 14. 



SoTTTH Africa: -without locality, Thunherg, Pappe ! Masson \ 



Coast Hegion; Clanwilliam Div. ; Berg ValJey, under 500 ft., Drege, h\ 

 between Lauge Valley and Oliphants River, 1000-1500 ft., Drege, c. Cape Div, ; 

 on rivulets near Constantia, Kraiiss. Stelleubosch Div., Ilarvey I 



Central Region : Calvinia Div, ; between Grasberg River and Watervals River, 

 2500-3000 ft., Drege, a I 



Western Region : Var. $ : Little 25"amaqualand ; between Pedros Kloof and 



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