324 cxxvi. sALiciNEJS (Skau). [Salix. 



Stamens 4-6, mostly 5 ; filaments densely whitish- woolly at the base. 

 Female catkimi not known. 



Upper Guinea. Gameioons : Adamaua Disirict, 4100 ft., Ledcnnann, 2613. 



10. S. kamerunensis, Seenie^i in Engl. Jahrh. xlv. 205. Shrub 

 10-13 ft. high ; bark of the older branchlets grey-brown ; young 

 branchlets red, somewhat shortly silky-hairy. Leaves shortly petio- 

 late, lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, acute or long-acuminate, 

 acute at the base, up to 3 in. long and J in. broad, sharply serrulate, 

 grass-green above, paler beneath, slightly silky-hairy when young, 

 afterwards glabrous. Male catkins appearing with the leaves, ped- 

 unculate, erect, cylindiic, up to 2 in. long, f in. thick, loosely flowered 

 at the base ; rhachis densely tomentose. Peduncle up to 2|- in. long, 

 erect, densely and shortly tomentose, bearing small lanceolate 

 leaves. Bracts ovate, rather obtuse, straw-coloured, veined, densely 

 tomentose on the margin. Disc-glands 2, broadly elliptic, the 

 anterior faintly and unequally toothed at the apex, the posterior 

 more deeply incised, both one-thii'd as long as the bracts. Stamens 

 6-7, twice as long as the bracts ; filaments densely and long whitish- 

 woolly at the base. Female catkins not known. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Bambutto Mountains at about 6000 ft., 

 Ledermann^ 1751. 



11. S. Ledermannii, Seemen in Engl. Jahrh. xlv. 204. Tree 12-40 

 ft. high ; branchlets dark brown, the younger shortly grey-tomentose, 

 the older glabrous. Leaves petiolate, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate 

 or oblong, acute at the apex and base or shortly acuminate at the 

 apex, entire, up to 2J in. long and | in. broad, pale green above, 

 greenish-white beneath, shortly hairy when young, afterwards 

 glabrous ; petiole up to 2 J lin. long ; stipules small, obliquely ovate, 

 serrate. Catkins appearing with the leaves. Male catkins ped- 

 unculate, erect, cyhndric, up to 1^ in. long, 2J lin. thick, densely 

 flowered ; rhachis densely grey-tomentose. Peduncle up to 5 lin. 

 long, densely and shortly grey-hairy, bearing some small leaves. 

 Bracts broadly elliptic, rounded at the apex, yellow-brown, densely 

 grey-tomentose. Disc-glands 2, posterior and anterior, broadly 

 elliptic, toothed at the apex, about half as long as the bracts. 

 Stamens 8-9 ; filaments densely woolly at the base. Female catkins 

 pedunculate, erect, cylindric, up to IJ in. long, 3J lin. thick, some- 

 what loosely flowered, rhachis densely and shortly grey-tomentose. 

 Peduncle up to IJ in. long, leafy. Bracts as in the male catkins. 

 Pedicel one-third as long as the ovary. Disc-glands 2, posterior and 

 anterior, almost as long as the pedicel. Ovary conical, obtuse, 

 glabrous ; style short, thick, a quarter as long as the ovary ; 

 stigmas elliptic, thick, laterally curved, emarginate. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Bambutto Mountains, at about 6500 ft., 

 Lsdermannf 1610, 1646. 



