Salix. DIOECFA DIANDRFA. 753 



ar, recurved, more than twice the length of the calyx. Fila- 

 ments eight, of unequal length, erect, shorter than the petals. 

 Anthers Wwe^iV. Germ abortive, three-sided. Stijles ihxee. 

 Female flowers on a separate plant. Scape shorter, and 

 thicker than in the male. Spathe as in the male, one-flow- 

 ered. Floicers white, elevated above the germ, and above 

 the mouth of the spathe by a very long receptacle, style, or 

 pedicel, which makes up for the shortness of the scape, and 

 brings the flowers nearly of a height with the tops of the 

 leaves. Perianth three-parted. Corol as in the male, only 

 the petals are here filiform. Germ cylindric, obsoletely three- 

 sided, sessile in the bottom of the spathe, ending in the above 

 mentioned flower-elevating receptacle. Style three-cleft 

 to near the base; divisions filiform, white. Capsule as in the 

 genus. 



They are all found in lakes and in stagnant pools of sweet 

 water, and as in V. spiralis, the male flowers, when ready to 

 expand, detach themselves from the plant, and are borne, as 

 the wind directs over the surface of the water, resting on the 

 tips of their reflected petals in search of the female flowers. 



SALIX. Sckreb. gen. N. 1493. 

 Male. Anient cylindric. Calyx scaly. Corol none, but 

 a nectariferous gland in the centre. Female. Calyx the 

 scales of the ament. Corol none. Style two-deft. Capsule 

 one-celled, two-valved. Seeds downy. 



1. S. tetrasperma. Willd. iv. 657. Coram, pi. 1. JV. 97. 



Arboreous. Leaves lanceolar, serrulate, acuminate, 

 smooth. Stamina from six to eight. Capsule four-seeded. 



Sans. Burun. 



Beng. Pani-j?<ma. 



Hind. Baishee. 



This is the only species of Salix I have yet found in India. 

 It is a middle-sized tree, a native of the banks of rivulets 



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