WILLOWS OF THE EAST INDIES. 15 
in an easterly direction, these are but few in number ; and towards the 
westward they do not appear to extend at all. "The fact is, there is in 
India a distinct group of Willows, precisely as the promontory of South 
Africa, the Canaries, Brazil, Mexico, and several other regions, have 
their more or less peculiar forms of this eminently varying genus. This 
group is distinguished by the shining bark of the branches, firmer and 
generally shining leaves with entire margins, lengthened apex, and 
glaucous under surface; and characteristic are, above all, their long, 
loose, mostly sessile male aments, having the scales arranged in separate 
verticils, very concave and commonly covered with woolly hairs; en- 
closing 8-10 stamens; the filaments capillary, villous below, and often 
recurved ; the anthers small, round, and of a golden-yellow colour. 
The form of the female aments, and the size, figure, and covering of 
the capsules, vary considerably; but the style is mostly wanting, the 
stigma resting on the apex of the capsule in the shape of a cross. 
The East Indian species of Willows, of which the following are the 
descriptions*, may be arranged in this manner :— 
I. AwERINA, Pr. - 5H nigricantes. 
l. S. apiculata, Aad. 13. S. myriczefolia, And. 
2. S. babylonica, Linn. 
3. S. dealbata, And. at lira 
4. S. glaucophylla, dnd. — Án 
14. S. tetrasperma, Roxb. 
I. VETRIX, fr. - 15. S. pyrina, Wail. 
16. S. urophylla, Lindl. 
17. S. ichnostachya, Jail. 
18. S. colostachya, And. 
5. S. daphnoides, Fil. 
6. S. viminalis, Zinn. 
III. Carnza, Fr. 19. S. suaveolens, dnd. 
* cinerascentes. 20. S. nobilis, Fr. 
7. S. Caprea, Linn. ** capsulá sessili. 
8. S. julacea, And. 2]. S. eriostachya, Vall. 
9. S. Wallichiana, And. 22. S. populifolia, - 
. psilostigma, dnd. 
+t virentes. 23. S. psilostigma 
10. S. hastata, Linn. V. FRIGIDA. 
11. S. *macrocarpa, dnd. 24. S. flabellaris, 4nd. 
12. S. denticulata, And. 95. S. Lindleyana, Wall. 
* These are omitted here.—En. 
