236 
longa; rhachis villosa. Pedunculus 1°5-3 cm. ae folia plura 
elliptico-lanceolata apiculata ad 38 cm. longa et 1°5 cm. lata 
ferens. Bracteae ellipticae 3 mm. longae, “8 mm. -latae, 
obtusae, dense villosae, cito “deciduve. Glandulae disct poculum 
Safsa 
hirta, Aden on Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockh, vol. vi. (1867) no. ‘tL 
Pp: 12, and in DC. Prodr. vol. xvi. pars ii. p. 197. 
TroprcaL Arrica. Nile Land: without precise locality, 
Sabbatier. Nubia; near Khartoum, Schweinfurth 866; between 
0 ‘ n on 
the Blue — ahaa S18, S19; north of the mouth of the River 
Dinder, Bro 
1619. Salix nigerica, Skan haps S. Chevaliert, 
eemen, proxima, sed foliis haud vel tantum leviter reticulatis 
et capsula breviore late aonnlos Si inigatenin. 
Ramuli teretes, juniores sericeo- pubescentes, demum rubro- 
brunnei et glabri. Yolia lanceolata, apice acuta vel acuminata, 
basi rotundata vel cuneata, remote minuteque serrulata vel 
coaetanea; rhachis dense villosa. Pedunculus 1-2 cm ine 
villosus, folia pauca elliptico-lanceolata breviter petiolata apice 
rotundata vel apiculata 6-18 mm. longa 3-8 mm. lata plus 
minusve sericeo-pubescentia ferens. Amenta 64 cylindrica, 
"1-3°5 em. longa, mm. lata, densiflora. Bracteae sub- 
orbiculares vel obovatae, fere 2 mm. longae, 1°5 mm. latae, apice 
rotundatae, villosae. landulae disci anticae, subcylindricae, 
fere ad 1 mm . longae. Stamina ad 11 vel plura; filamenta 
inferne dense willoan: Amenta 2? fructifera ad 3 cm. longa. 
Bractae eis amentorum 6 simillimae, cito deciduae. Glandulae 
disci poculum lobatum pedicellum cingens eique fere aequilongum 
formantes. Pedicillus vix 1 mm. longus, villosus. Capsula ‘late 
ovoidea, 5-6 mm. lon 3-3°5 mm. lata, minute lepidota, 
interdum an _sericeo-pubescens stylus fere ‘5 mm. longus; 
stigmata 2-lo 
TROPICAL — Northern Nigeria: Katagum District; on 
banks of streams, Dalziel 220. Lake Chad to Bornu, Talbot 1493. 
Dalziel’s no. 199, from the banks of the Benue River at Yola, 
has male catkins only, and these are more slender than those of 
his no. and have narrower sparingly woolly or nearly glabrous 
bracts, while the flowers have only 5 to 8 stamens. The leaves 
present on the short catkin-bearing branchlets are narrower and 
longer. It is possibly a distinct species, but the material is 
inadequate for a complete description. Its Hausa name is “‘ba 
ruana.’ 
