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charcoal. The branches are lopped for fodder, and the twigs are 
much used by basket-makers. Many varieties of this polymorphous 
plant are mentioned in the Fl. Brit. Ind., the majority of which must 
be regarded merely as representing geographical forms. Thus Sir 
Joseph Hooker distinguishes the prevalent N. W. Indian form as 
compared with the southern and eastern ones. In the former the 
leaves are usually longer and narrower and become pale-green or 
yellowish when dry, and the nerves are more oblique. The pale- 
coloured capsules also are larger and on shorter stalks. In the 
southern and eastern forms the leaves are usually shorter and broader 
and with the upper surface shining, and they are dark-brown when 
dry ; the nerves too are nearly horizontal, and the capsules are 
smaller and dark-coloured and usually with longer and more slender 
stalks. From my own observations I am inclined to believe that the 
southern form extends as far north as Mt. Abu and Bundelkhand. 
2.8. acmophylla, Boiss. Diagn. vii, 98; Fl. Or. iv, 1183; 
Brandis For. Fl.; Ind. Trees 636; F. B. I. v, 628; Watt EB. D’; 
Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 388 ; Gamble Man. 686.—Vern. Jalmala. 
A moderate-sized glabrous tree, with the trunk up to 7 ft. in girth ; 
branches lax, forming a founded crown ; branchlets often pendulous. 
Leaves 2-5 in. long, linear-lanceolate, the upper ones caudate-acu- 
minate, entire or serrulate, glaucous beneath. Catkins short; shortly 
stalked ; bracts scale-like, ovate or oblong, concave villous. Male 
catkins 1-2 in. long, cylindric, dense-flowered. Stamens 4-6. Fem. 
catkins nodding, | in. long, bracts deciduous. Capsules ovoid-oblong, 
on short stalks ; stigmas sessile, short, entire. 
Dehra Dun and Saharanpur forests, Siwalik range and Sub-Himalayan 
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tracts from the Ganges westwards, often cultivated. Flowers after 
the leaves appear. Distrib.: Himalayan valleys up to 6,000 ft. and 
westwards to Afghanistan and Baluchistan where it is much culti- 
vated for cattle fodder. It is also grown to some extent in gardens 
as an ornamental tree. Brandis regarded this tree as intermediate 
between S. tetrasperma and the W. African S. Sufsuf. A local form 
found in Dehra Dun with reddish fragile branches, gland-serrulate 
leaves, and male flowers always with 6 stamens may prove to be a 
distinct species. 
. BABYLONIOCA, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. wii, 754; Brandis For. Fl. 465, 
t. 59 ; Ind. Trees 637 ; F. B. I. v, 629 ; Gamble Man. 688.—Weeping ~ 
willow.—Largely cultivated in the plains of N. W. India in gardens 
and on canal banks, also on the Himalaya up to 9,000 ft. It is eulti- 
