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Afghanistan, Kashmir, Himalaya eastwards to Bhutan, ascending to 9,000 feet. 

 Growth fast, rings per inch of radius. Weight, 32 Ibs. per cubic foot. The 

 branches are made into baskets. 



Iba. 



H 2910. Nagkanda, Simla, 8,OOG feet 32 



H 3035 



5. S. elegans, Wall. ; Brandis 466. Vern. Sail, blail, Mains, Simla. 

 A small shrub with pinkish wood. Annual rings marked by a porous 



spring wood and by an autumn wood of firmer texture. 



North- West Himalaya, from 7,000 to 10,000 feet, as far east as Nepal, Lahoul, 

 Kunawar, as high as 11,500 feet. 



Growth slow, 15 rings per inch of radius. Weight, 33 Ibs. per cubic foot. Used for 

 fodder for cattle and goats. The leaves of this and S. daphnoides are often attacked 

 by a brilliant orange-coloured fungus, which is Lecythea sulicina, Lev. 



Ibs. 



H 2842. Mahasu, Simla, 8,000 feet 33 



H 2906. Nagkanda, Simla, 9,000 feet 



6. S. daphnoides, Vill. ; Brandis 469. Vern. Bed, bidai, betsa, beli, 

 bushan, bashal, bhail, bkeul, mudanu, s/tiin, thdil, Pb.; Yur, Kashmir; 

 Changma, chdmma, malcfiang, Jcalchang, West Tibet; Ric/iang, roangching, 

 ckanglcar, Lahoul. 



A shrub or tree with smooth bark. Heartwood red, shining. Annual 

 rings marked by more numerous pores iu the spring wood. 



North- West Himalaya, both on the outer ranges and in the inner arid tract. It 

 extends to the Alps and the mountains of Central Europe. 



Growth variable : the Lahoul specimen shewed a rate of 4 rings per inch ; the rest 

 gave from 10 to 15 rings. Weight, our specimens average 33'5 Ibs. per cubic foot ; 

 Mathieu, Fl. For. p. 397, gives 32*7 Ibs. The wood is used in the arid inner valleys 

 for building, pails, tubs and tools. The twigs are used for baskets, twig bridges in 

 Piti, Zanskar and Ladak, and for building (willow wattle an4 daub) in Ladak. It is 

 much grown in Lahoul, from cuttings 9 to .12 feet long ; the trees are pollarded every 

 third or fourth year, and the branches and leaves used for cattle-fodder and litter. 



Ibi. 



H 2854. Mahasu, Simla, 7,000 feet .... 



H 47. Kaflashi, Simla, 7,000 .30 



H 66. Nagkanda, Simla, 8,000 feet .34, 



H 2905. 9,000 .... 



H 3034 8,000 .37 



H 3036. 8,000 33 



H 142. Lahoul, about 9,000 feet 34 



7. S. viminalis, Linn.; Brandis 470. Vern. Bitsu, Pb. ; Kumant<t, 

 Lahoul. 



A shrub with shining, grey, slightly-cracked bark, and white wood, 

 with the structure of the genus. 



Inner arid Himalaya from the Jhelam to Sikkim (S. Smithiana, Willd.), from 5,COO 

 to 9,000 feet, cultivated in Lahoul, Dras and Kunawar. Common throughout Europe 

 in osier beds. 



H 143. Lahoul, about 9,000 feet. 



8. S. sp, (It may be near viminalis.) 



A deciduous shrub with smooth dark-coloured bark and lanceolate 

 leaves, covered beneath with white tomentum. Wood soft, close-grained, 

 heartwood red. Annual rings distinctly marked by an irregular belt of 



