Salix."] CXLI. SALICINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 627 



scattered clusters, bracts subspathulate, stamens 5-10, capsules long 

 stipitate glabrous or pnberulous, stigmas subsessile short entire. Anderss. 

 Monogr. 1, f . 1 ; DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 192 ; Wight Ic. t. 1954 ; Brand. For. 

 Fl. 462, t. 58 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 493 ; Seddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 302 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 3700 A in part, E, 3707, 9104, 9106 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. FL. 220 ; 

 Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 375; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 460; Forbes 

 Salicet. Wob. t. 31. S. disperma, Don Prodr. 58 ; Anderss. in Act. 

 Holm. 1850, 500; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 42. S. Horsfieldiana, Miq. I. c. 

 461. S. nilagirica, Miq. Plant. Hochst. Exsicc. 1851, n. 982. S. tetra- 

 sperma, /3. nilagirica, Anderss. Monogr. 3 ; DC. I. c. 193. 



Throughout TROPICAL and SUBTROPICAL INDIA, from the Panjab eastwards to 

 Mishmi, Assam and Munnipore, ascending the Himalaya to 7000 ft., and southwards to 

 Travancore and Singapore. (Absent from Ceylon.) DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java. 



A small tree, 20-40 ft., flowering after leafing, trunk stout, attaining 10 ft. girth ; 

 head large, branches suberect. Leaves 3-8 in., glabrous or the young as well as the 

 branchlets more or less softly tomentose or silky ; petiole j-1 in.; stipules ovate or 

 orbicular, deciduous. Male catkins 2-4 in., on leafy branchlets, sweet-scented; 

 bracts obovate or spathulate, pale, hairy ; fern. 3-5 in., bracts smaller; disk small, 

 ^-annular. Capsules very variable in length and breadth, |-i in. ; stipes as long or 

 shorter. Seeds 4-6. A polymorphous plant, of which the pi-evalent N.W. Indian 

 form differs very much from the southern and eastern in the longer narrower leaf, 

 like those of S. daphniphylla, pale green or yellowish when dry, with more oblique 

 nerves, and much larger shortly stipitate pale capsules; -the eastern and southern 

 forms have (when dry) dark -brown usually shorter and often broader leaves shining 

 above, with more horizontal nerves, smaller dark capsules, on often very slender 

 stipes ; of these southern and eastern forms, some have glabrous branchlets and young 

 leaves, in others they are tomentose or almost silky. Roxburgh describes the style 

 as being as long as the capsule, and the latter as cordate at the base; the first character 

 never .applies, and the capsule is only cordate after dehiscence. Of the varieties 

 founded by authors on looser or denser-fid, catkins and form of the leaves and cap- 

 sule none seem to me to be tenable. 



VAE. pyrina, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 42 ; shoots petioles young leaves 

 beneath and rachis of catkins softly tomentose or woolly, capsules narrow, mature 

 leaves often subsilky on both surfaces. S. pyrina, Lindl. in Wall. Gat. 3705 ; 

 Anderss. in Act. Holm. 1850, 486 ; Monogr. 4; DO. Prodr. I. c. 193 ; Miq. FL Ind. 

 Sat. i. ii. 461. S. Wallichii, Wimm. in Herb. Vind. S. lenta, Fries Nov. Fl. Sv. 

 Mant. i. 78 ; Anderss. 1. c. and Monogr. 4, f . 2. Common from Nepal eastwards and 

 southwards. Audensson, who makes a variety of pyrina in Journ. Linn. Soc., quotes 

 that work in the Prodromus for it as a species. 



VAB. suaveolens, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 41 ; DC. 1. c. 193 ; branches 

 chestnut-red quite glabrous, leaves ovate-lanceolate 3 in. broad very coriaceous and 

 shining at length glabrous and densely glaucous beneath, male bracts very broadly 

 ovate densely villous. S. suaveolens, Anderss. in Act. Holm. 1850, 491. S. Myurus 

 & Hugelii, Wimmer in Herb. Vind. Ajmir and N.W. Himalaya. 



VR. wridifolia ; shoots and young leaves glabrous, leaves lanceolate acuminate 

 serrate pa*le yellow-green on both surfaces when dry. Coimbatore, Herb. Wight. 

 This, which is in male fl. only, may be a different species. There are scraps in Herb. 

 Wallich under No. 3702, which consists of this, S. tetrasperma and ichnostachya. 



S. GLABRESCENS, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3706, omitted by Andersson in his various 

 works, is probably a form of tetrasperma, said to be from both Oude and Rohilkunds 

 with old hoary capsules and branches. Andersson has written on the sheet "S. laurinfe 

 X macrostachya valde affinis," Wall. Cat. 3707 D. 8. tetrasperma, var. pubescens, 

 Lindl., with large rounded stipules, is probably the same. 



S. CUSPIDATA, Wall. Cat. 3703 (omitted by Andersson) ; Don Prodr. 58. There 

 are two sheets from Herb. Wight ; A is tetrasperma with long bracts and glabrous 

 capsules, B consists of t leaves only, and is labelled by Andersson S. apiculata, 

 Anderss. 



