PHOF. N. J. ANDEESSON ON EAST INDIAN SALIOES. 39 



On East Indian Salices. By Dr. N. J. Andersson, Professor of 

 Botany in the University of Stockholm. Communicated by 

 Dr. J. D. Hooker, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



[Read June 16, 1859.] 



In the Transactions of the Eoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences 

 (Kongl. Wet. Akademiens Handlingar), 1850, pp. 465-502, I 

 have already given a Synopsis of the "Willows then known from 

 the East Indies. Before that time, Eoxburgh ('Plants of the 

 Coast of Coromandel,' 1795) had described and figured >S'. tefra- 

 sjperma) Don ('Prodromus Elorse Nepalensis,' Lond. 1825), S. 

 disperma, S. cusjpidata, and S. japonica ; Pries (I^Tov. PI. Suec. 

 Mont, i., 1832) >S'. noUlis and S. lenta\ and Wallich ('A Nume- 

 rical List of Dried Specimens of Plants,' &c.) enumerated >S'. lAnd- 

 leyanay S. ohovata, S. elegans^ S. grisea, S. Kamanensis, S. erio- 

 stachya, S. pyrina, S. glahrescens, S. urophylla, S. calophylla, S. 

 densttj and S. habylonica. 



During a tour to the Continent and England, in the year 1850, 

 I had opportunity to examine almost all these species : at Berlin 

 I determined the few forms brought from the Himalaya by "W. 

 Hofmeister in the expedition of Prince Waldemar of Prussia ; in 

 Paris I saw the collections of Jacquemont and Perrottet ; and in 

 London Mr. Kippist gave me a liberal access to the East Indian 

 herbarium of the Linnean Society. Upon those materials was 

 that Synopsis founded. I there gave diagnoses and descriptions 

 of twenty -five species, to which were added a few "incertse" and 

 " dubi«." 



Now, having been so fortunate as to make use of the extremely 

 rich collections formed in that vast land, and in the higher regions of 

 the Himalaya mountains by Dr. J. D. Hooker and Dr. T. Thomson, 

 of which the Salices were handed over to me by the generosity of 

 Sir William Hooker and Dr. Hooker, I not only have had occa- 

 sion to review the previously published determinations, but also 

 to describe a very considerable number of new forms. 



The species proposed in this paper are as foUow : — 



I. Ameeina. 



* Folyandros. 



1. S. tetrasperma, Roxh. 

 S. pyrina, Wall. 

 S. urophylla, Lindl. 



S. suaveolens, Ands. 

 S. ichnostachya, Lindl. 

 S. nobilis, Fr. 



2. S." calostachya, ^wc?5. 



3. S. apiculata, Ands. 



4. S. glaucophylla, Ands. 



