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(male) ; Peking, C. S. Sargent, September 16, 1903 ("large tree with pendu- 

 lous branches; the common Peking Willow"); Peking-Nankow road 

 J. H. Jack, October 6, 1905 ("Common Willow of Peking plain; large 

 tree"); Calceen wong, W. Purdom, no. 65, 1909 ("pendulous form;" in 

 fruit); Hsia tien, F. N. Meyer, no. 935, May 25. 1913 fin fruit): Kalian. 



N. H. Cowdry, no. 2156 ("smooth bark"), no. 2157 ("rough bark"), 

 August, 1921; Tsung ling mountains, N. H. Cowdry, no. 1337, May 18, 

 1921; on road to Ku hei kow, A T . H. Cowdry, no. 1338, May 13, 1921; 

 Ming tombs, J. Hers, no. 1596, August 14, 1921.— See also Bunge, 1. c, 

 Debeaux, 1. c. (1879), Franchet, 1. c. (PI. David.), Burkill, 1. c, Schneider, 

 1. c, and Bailey, 1. c. 



Shantung: Chifu, N. H. Cowdry, no. 632, September 1, 1920; near 

 Tsingtau (ex Seemen, 1. c. and Loesener, 1. c.).— See also Debeaux, 1. c. 

 (1877), Franchet, 1. c. (Mem. Cherbourg), Burkill, 1. c, and Faber, 1. c. 



Honan: Cheng chow, J. Hers, no. 83, April 20, 1920 ("the common 

 Willow of the plain;" in fruit); Fan lin, Lu shih, alt. 600 m., J. Hers, 

 no. 850 (pendulous form); east of Kai fang, cultivated, J. Hers, no. 31, 

 May 9, 1919; without precise locality and without no., J. Hers, 1919 ("the 

 common Willow of north Honan").— See also Hers, 1. c. 



Kansu: Ran shiu, E. Umemura, No. 17 (type, ex Koidzumi, 1. c). 



Distribution: also Manchuria, Amur and Ussuri region, Transbaikalia. 



This is the common Willow of Chili and northern Honan. The pendu- 

 lous form of it which apparently takes in these regions the place of S. 

 babylonica L. has been distinguished as f. pendula Schneider (in Bailey, 

 Gent. Herb. 1. 18 [1920]) based on a specimen from a cultivated tree collected 

 at Shanghai. In the collection of photographs of this Arboretum there 

 is a photograph of a beautiful tree of this form at Fan lin, Lu shih, 

 northern Honan, taken by J. Hers (specimens under no. 850) and a 



photograph taken on the Tchien shan in Manchuria by F. N. Meyer 

 (specimens under no. 54). According to J. Hers, S. Matsudana is occa- 

 sionally cultivated as a basket willow but is inferior to S. purpurea. 



Salix cupularis (Sect. Sclerophyllae), sp. nov. 



Frutex ad videtur parvus erectus ramulis brevibus ab initio glabris; 

 ramuli annotini fusco-purpurei, vetustiores cortice fisso vel secedente 

 flavescente partim flavidi vel flavo-grisei et cicatricibus ramulorum fruci- 

 ferorum delapsorum nodosi. Folia graciliter petiolata, elliptica vel obo- 

 vato-elliptica, 1.5-2.5 cm. longa, apice obtusa et apiculata vel acutiuscula, 

 basi late cuneata vel interdum rotundata, integra, supra obscura viridia, 

 subtus glaucescentia, glaberrima, subchartacea, utrinque nervis 6-9 

 leviter elevatis, venulis vix conspicuis vel obsoletis; petioli graciles, 0.5-1 

 cm. longi, flavescentes; stipulae minimae, suborbiculares, circiter 5 mm. 

 longae, crassiusculae. Amenta feminea in apice ramulorum brevium 0.5- 

 1 cm. longorum folia plura normalia gerentia, circiter 1 cm. longa et 6-8 

 mm. crassa (fructibus immaturis); ovaria brevissime pedicellata, elongato- 



