[1. Salix- 



Fani. 65. SALICAC&E 



1. Salix, L. Willow. 



Trees or shrubs with simple alt. stipulate leaves and fls. 

 in 'dense spikes (catkins), each in the axil of a small bract, 

 dioecious (very rarely 2-sexual in solitary specimens). 

 Perianth 0, but 1 or 2 fleshy glands or scales Bituated 

 posteriorly, or post, and anterioily, at the base of the flower 

 may represent a perianth. (In S. tetrasperma 2 smaller 

 lateral glands are often added in the male). St. 2 or several, 

 fil. often connate at the base. Ovary of 2 rarely 3 combined 

 carpels and the same, number of stigmas, 1-celled. Seeds 

 few or many parietal, with a pencil of hairs from the 



1, S- tetraspetma, Roxb. Nachal, K. ; Gada sigric', 

 Sunu^iikui (vide Hompnoia), S. ; Chihur, Kharw. 



A tree, or in one form a shrub, with silkily-pubescent 

 shoots, lanceolate or oblanceolate t< ovate-lanceolate acumi- 

 nate leaves sparsely hairy and pale-glacuous beneath. 

 Catkins terminating the short lateral shoots, 11-4* long 

 pubescent. Disc, glands very broad. 



Along rivers and streams, in all the districts, but nowhere very 

 common. Fls. Oct., on the new shoots. Seed ripens DecJawj. Deciduous 

 in Sept. In some districts of Bengal it flowers in the hot season ! 



L. about V by 1|" in the broader forms, but often only If by |" on 

 the flowering shoots, entire or crenate with rounded or acute base 

 Sec. n. very slender 10-19 prs. Petiole |f*. Bracts almost wo.oly 1*4** 

 much shorter than the 5-10 very slender filaments. Disc glands in the 

 male usually of a large anterior and posterior lobe and two small lateral 

 aide lobes, of the female (sometimes also of the male r) 1 semi-circular. 

 Capsules £'' pubescent or glabrous, on pedicels nearly as long as them- 

 selves. Style hardly any. Stigmas 4, or two 2-lobed. 



There are two varieties well marked by habit. One a tree, with 

 narrow leaves, and pec. m scarcely visible beneath. Growing chiefly along 

 river banks. The other, a small tree or a shrub, with broader more 

 crenate leaves, and &oo. n. fine but raised beneatb. This also has 

 the semi-circular disc. Found along small streams, often in thick 

 forest. 



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