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SPECIES VII.— S A LI X TRIANDRA. ''LinnrKocJ,. 



Plates MCCCXIII.— MCCCXV. 



Belch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DCV. and DCVI. Nos. 1256 to 1260. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2363. 



Wimmer, Sal. Europ. p. 12. Anders. Mob. Sal. p. 23. 



Leaves lanceolate-oblong or oblong-elliptical, acute, callous-serrate, 

 dark green and shining above, paler and often glaucous beneath, 

 glabrous on both sides, at length subcoriaceous. Stipules generally 

 large, half-ovate-cordate, blunt. Catkins opening at tlie same time as 

 the leaf-buds, on short lateral branches, with 2 or 3 leaves at the base, 

 ascending cylindrical, rather thick, lax. Catkin-scales obovate in the 

 male catkins, and oblanceolate-strapshaped or strapshaped in the female 

 catkins, glabrous, or with shaggy hairs towards the base, and a few 

 longer ones on the inside. Stamens 3 ; filaments hairy at the base. 

 Capsule ovate-conical, obtuse, glabrous, on a stalk 3 to 5 times as long 

 as the nectary ; style scarcely any ; stigmas short, thick, notched or 

 bifid, recurved. Underside of the young leaves sometimes with a few 

 hairs. 



Yar. a, ge7iuina. 



Plate MCCCXIII. 



Beicl. Ic. Fl. Germ. Fig. 1259. 



S. triandra, Linn. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1435, and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. ,166. BooTi. 

 Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 156. 



Young twigs not furrowed. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, narrowed 

 towards the base, paler or glaucous beneath. 



Yar. 3, Hoffmanniana. 



Plate MCCCXIV. 



S. Hoffmanniana, Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 168. Borrer, in E.B.S. No. 2620, BooJ<. 

 Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 357. 



Y'oung twigs not furrowed. Leaves broadly elliptical-lanceolate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, rounded at the base, pale green, not glaucous beneath. 

 Stipules larger and more rounded than in var. a. 



