6G2 CXVITl. SALICACE.E. 



ovules 4-6 (usually 4) ; stigma sessile, 2-branchecl, each branch 2-lobed. 

 Capsule glabrous, -l--^ iu. long on a long slender stalk. Seeds 4-6, Y\. 

 B. 1. V. 5, p. 626;' Grab. Cat. p. 195; Dal/-. & Gibs. p. 220; Wight, 

 Icon. t. 1954 ; Bedd. Elor. Sylvat. t. 302 ; Tulb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 336 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 517 ; Prain, Beug. 

 PI. p. 989; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 2, p. 391.— Flowers : 

 Oct. Vebn. Wahcnj. 



DeCcan : Poona, Woodrow ; Mahableshwar, Cooke !, H. M. Birdwood, vale of tlie 

 Yena (Mahableshwar) and otlier moist places, Graham. S. M. Countuy : in various 

 places, Law ex Graham; Belgaum, Bitchio, 159!; planted along roadsides about 

 Eelgaum, chiefly male trees, Talbot. — Distrib. India (on river-banks and in moist 

 places) ; China, Milaj Peninsula and Archipelago. 



2. Salix ichnostachya, Lindl. in Wall Cat. (1828) n. 3702. A 

 moderate-sized tree. Leaves 3-6 by -|-2 in., lanceolate or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate, subcoriaceous, smooth and shining above, 

 glaucous beneath, penninerved, base usually acute ; main nerves 

 numerous, slender ; petioles j-l^ in. long. Catkins softly woolly, 

 often androgynous (the males and females mixed in the same catkin). 

 Male elowers : Bracts i- in. long, ovate-oblong, obtuse, concave, 

 densely woolly. Stamens 6-8. Female elowers : Bracts much 

 smaller than in the male, yV~T2 "^* ^*^"o' suborbicular, concave, densely 

 woolly. Ovary sessile or nearly so ; stigma sessile, short, 2-fid. 

 Capsules sessile or nearly so, globosely ovoid, densely woolly. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 5, p. 628 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1953; talb. Trees, Bomb. ed."2, p. 336.— 

 Flowers : Oct. 



In the specimens from Wight's Herbarium in Herb. Kew. many of the 

 catkins are androgynous. 



KoNKAN and N. Kanaka : along river-banks, Talbot. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsnla). 



Salix hahylonica, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 1017. A tree attaining 

 50 ft. high with drooping branches. Leaves 3-6 by | in., narrowly 

 lanceolate. Flowers appearing with the leaves ; catkins very slender, 

 the male catkins |-1 in. long, the female 1 in. long. Capsules glabrous, 

 sessile. The Weeping Willow, well known in England, occasionally 

 grown as an ornamental tree. — Graham says that there was a plant in 

 Parel Garden, Bombaj^ reared from a cutting of the tree wliich grew 

 over the tomb of Niipoleon at St. Helena. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 629 ; Grab. 

 Cat. p. 195; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 81; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 6, part 2, p. 388. 



2. POPULUS, Linn. 



Trees with scaly often resinous buds. Leaves alternate, usually broad, 

 3-5-nerved from the base, penninerved above, entire, toothed or lobed 

 (in the only Bombay species very heteromorphous) ; stipules narrow, 

 membranous, fugacious. Flowers often pedicellate in both sexes, 

 dioecious, in usually lax catkins ; bracts of catkins caducous, crenate or 

 lobed. Disk fleshy or membranous, cup-shaped, often oblique, entire, 

 toothed or irregularly lobed. jMale elowers : Stamens 4-30; tilanients 

 filiform, free; anthers usually large. Female flowers: Ovary sessile 

 within the disk ; placentas 2-3 (rarely 4) ; ovules many on each 

 placenta. Capsule 2-4-valved. Seeds very small with a long and 

 dense coma. — Distrib. Species 18, chiefly in N. temperate regions. 



