Salix.] cxxvi. 8ALIC1NEA] (Skaii). 823 



Kotbchy's no. 430, also from Kordofan probably iK'lont^a Lo thiH specieb, 

 but differs in having much smaller leaves. Like his no. 43'J it l>earH no 

 catkins. 



►Solras (in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 187) mentioned under the ni\me of 

 •S'. nilicola a willow with long acute toothed leaves and very long catkins of 

 which specimens were collected by Ehrenberg in Dongola. it is possible that 

 it is the same as 6'. Schweinfurlhii. 



8. S. coluteoides, Mirh. iv Mem. Mus. Par. xiv. 162, t. 20. Tiee 

 or shrub ; branches slender, reddish-brown, glabrous. Leaves 

 petiolate, elliptic, entire, niucronate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, 

 cuneate at the base, the larger j-1 in. long and 4-5 lin. broad, thin, 

 glabrous, somewhat glaucous beneath, faintly veined ; petiole 

 J-2 lin. long ; stipules minute. Male catkins appearing with the 

 leaves, terminating slender leafy peduncles or branches A to nearly 

 2 in. long, cylindric, J-1 in. long, rather few-flowered, somewhat 

 interrupted at the base ; rhachis pubescent. Bracts deeply concave, 

 suborbicular, J-1 lin. long and broad, obtuse or rounded at the apex, 

 purplish or rose-coloured, sparingly pubescent. Disc-glands fleshy, 

 J-J lin. long, both posterior and anterior divided into 2 or 3 cylindric 

 or flattened bodies. Stamens 5-11 ; anthers large ; filaments verv 

 densely clothed in the lower part with long woolly whitish hairs. 

 Female catkins ? Ovary pedicellate, glabrous, ovoid ; pedicel 

 scarcely longer than the disc-gland ; style short ; stigmas thick, 

 undivided. Capsule less than 1 lin. long. — Trautv. Salicetum, 16. 

 S. senegalensis, Mert. ex Anderss. in Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockh. 

 vi. (1867) no. 1, 12, t. 1, fig. 10, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 197 ; Seemeu 

 in Fedde, Repert. Nov. Sp. v. 133. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perroltet; on the banks of the Senegal Ri\er at 

 Dagana, Roger ! Lower Senegal and Cayor ; Mbohou, Chcvulitr, 2667 I 



I)tiperfectlfj known species. 



9. S. adamauensis, Seemeu in Emjl. Jahrh. xlv. 205. Shrub 6-13 ft . 

 high ; branches erect ; bark of the older branchlets red-brown ; 

 younger branchlets grey-brown, shortly grey silky-hairy. Leaves 

 shortly petiolate, lanceolate and long-acuniiuate or the lower oblong 

 or oblong-lanceolate and shortly acuminate, all acute at the ba.se, 

 entire, up to 4 in. long, 10 lin. broad, pale green above, glaucous 

 beneath, the younger shortly grey silky-hairy, the older glabrous ; 

 petiole up to J in. long. Male catkins appearing with the leaver, 

 pedunculate, erect, cylindric, IJ in. long, 2^ lin. thick, rather loosely 

 flowered ; rhachis at fii'st shortly grey-hairy, afterwards glabrous. 

 Peduncle up to 5 lin. long, bearing a few small lanceolate leaves. 

 Flowers recurved. Bracts ovate, straw-coloured, whitish-woolly 

 on the margin. Disc-glands 2, narrowly ellipsoid, obliquely acute 

 or emarginate at the apex, about one-third as long as the bracts. 



