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SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SimpLy LBAVEs. 
Salix oxyearpa, 
SALICINE. 
F. B. I. v. 636. 
Himalaya, 
* 6-11.000 ft. 
Simla. 
PETALS NONE. 
SHEDS WITH A TUFT OF LONG WHITE HAIRS. 
large, shoots velvety at first ; leaves 2-4 by 3-1} in., 
lanceolate, pointed, teeth small, or none, smooth above, 
waxy greenish-blue beneath, stipules small, semi-lanceolate ; 
flowers appearing before the leaves on very long, stout, 
sessile spikes, bracts yellow in males or brown in females, 
in males stamens 2, united below, in females style very 
short, stigmas short ; capsules large, +, in., sessile, silky. 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE StTipuLATE LoBap Lwavezs. 
Helicteres Isora, 
Cratzgus 
Oxyaeantha, 
Cratzgus 
Clarkei, 
Hibiscus hirtus, 
MALVACEZ. 
BeBe L355. 
The Plains. 
Hibiscus syriacus, 
Gurhal. 
MALVACES. 
BSB isis, 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
PRTALS UNUNITED. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
see Trees, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 
see Trees, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 
PHTALS UNITED. 
medium size, cultivated ; leaves 3 by 2 in., ovate, 
long-pointed, lower leaves often 3-lobed, toothed, 
hairy, stalk 2 in., hairy, stipules $ in., linear; flowers 
3 in. diam., pink or white, spreading on long-jointed stalks, 
calyx lobes 5, not distended, linear-lanceolate, bracteoles 
5-7, awl-shaped, without appendages, shorter than the 
sepals, corolla 3 in. diam., petals 5, joined with the stami- 
nal tube, which is 5-toothed ; capsule devalved, round, 
shorter than the calyx, seeds cottony. This plant yields 
a strong fibre. 
medium size, cultivated, not prickly ; leaves 2 in. 
long, ovate, 3-lobed, toothed, surface nearly smooth, 
stalk short ; flowers red, large, showy on stalks ag long as 
leaf stalks, axillary, bracteoles 6-7, linear, half the length 
of the calyx, sepals 5, ovate, lanceolate, petals 5, broad 
at the tip, longer than the éalyx, staminal tube with an- 
thers all the way up ; capsule oblong, blunt, slightly hairy, 
seeds thinly hairy. This plant yields a stronger fibre 
than the last. 
