318 cxxvi. SALiciNEiB (Skan). [Salix. 



up to 2i in. long ; capsulo distinctly 



beaked ..." 7. «S'. Schweinjurthii. 



Leaves elliptic or elliptic-ovate, broadly rounded at 

 the apex, not more than 1 in. long ; male catkins 

 h-^ in. long ... ... ... ... 8.6'. coluieoidts. 



1. S. Safsaf, Fursk. Fl. Mijyyt.-Amh. Ixxvi. Tree up to 30 ft. high 

 or more, with the habit of >S. alba ; branchlets glabrous, or villous 

 when young, brown or reddish-brown. Leaves lanceolate, acute to 

 long-acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, more or less serrulate, 

 especially towards the apex, or almost entire, often furnished with 

 glands at the base. 1-4 in. (usually 2-3 in.) long, J-1 in. broad, quite 

 glabrous or sometimes villous when young, light green above, paler 

 beneath and sometimes glaucescent ; petiole 1-6 lin. long, often 

 reddish, glabrous or sometimes more or less pubescent ; stipules 

 semi-cordate, up to 2 lin. long, often minute or wanting, glandular 

 denticulate and sometimes with prominent glands on the sides. 

 Catkins appearing with the leaves, pedunculate. Peduncle 1-2J in, 

 long, bearing a few usually oblanceolate apiculate leaves smaller 

 than. the ordinary leaves. Male catkins cylindric, l\-2l in. long; 

 rhachis sparingly pubescent. Bracts ovate to ovate-orbicular, and 

 1-1 3 lin. long, J-l lin. broad, obtuse to acuminate, concave, villous 

 inside, sparingly villous to nearly glabrous outside. Disc-glands 

 formiiig a somewhat irregular cup around the base of the stamens, 

 about \ lin. long, or the anterior suborbicular about J lin. across and 

 the posterior rather smaller and 2-lobed. Stamens 6-7 or more ; 

 filaments shortly villous on the lower part. Female catkins (in fruit) 

 1^-2 in. long ; rhachis sparingly and shortly pubescent or nearly 

 glabrous. Bracts ovate or broadly ovate, about 1 lin. long and 

 broad, rounded or subacute, scurfy. Disc-glands forming a thick 

 more or less irregular cup surrounding the base of the pedicel, \-\ lin. 

 long. Pedicels ^-If lin. long, glabrous or sometimes villous at 

 the base. Capsule ovoid, 2|-3J lin. long, I4-2 lin. broad, rounded 

 or sometimes narrowed at the base, glabrous. — Trautv. Salicetuni, 

 6, t. 2 ; Anderss. in Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockh. vi. (1867), no. 1, 

 10, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 196 (incl. var. niloiica, Anderss.) ; Solms 

 in Schweinf . Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 187 ; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 

 151 ; Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. 1183 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 189 ; 

 Muschler, Man. Fl. Egypt, i. 242. S. suhserrata, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 

 671 ; Poir. Encycl., Suppl. v. 58 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 

 1030. S. ociandra, Sieb. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 276. /S. 

 wgypliaca, T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 647 ; not of Linn. IS. 

 huillensis, Seemen in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. Beibl. 57,. 45, and xxx. 

 291 ; Warb. in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 219. 



Nile Land. U])per Egypt : banks of the Nile at Abou-Farouh, Kntlik ! 

 >iubia : bank.s of the Nile near Amada, KraUk ! Gherri Pays, N. Lat. Ki'^, 

 Grant ! El Korehr and near Ibrim and Tingur, Elirtubenj ; Abyssinia ; 



