630 CXLI. SALICINEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Salix. 



catkins -1 in. ; bracts lanceolate ; fern, as long ; bracts as in the male. Capsule 

 & in., pale green. Weeping Willow. 



5. S. eleg"ans, Wall. Cat. 3699 ; shoots petioles and midrib above 

 usually pubescent, leaves elliptic obovate or oblong acute or obtuse or tip 

 rounded serrulate very glaucous and reticulate beneath, catkins slender on 

 leafy peduncles, bracts small yellow, male compact, stamens 2 free, fem. 

 much longer slender drooping, bracts minute yellow subpubescent, capsules 

 shortly stipitate conic obtuse, stigmas subsessile 2-partite. Anderss. in 

 DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 256 ; Brand. For. FL 466 ; G-amUe Man. Ind. Timb. 

 377. S. kumaonensis, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3701. S. denticulata, Anderss. 

 in Act. Holm. 481, and in Bot. Seise Pr. Wald. 119, t. 89. 



WESTEEN HIMALAYA ; from Nepal to Marri, alt. 6-11,000 ft., and Gilgit. 



A shrub or small tree, flowering after leafing ; branches black or brown. Leaves 

 1-2 in., young membranous, old rigid ; petiole i in. Male catkins 1| in. ; fem. 

 3-5 in. Capsules in. ; stigmas spreading. 



VAE. Govaniana, Anderss. in DC. 1. c. 257 ; taller, leaves larger almost lanceolate 

 more sharply serrulate more glaucous beneath. S. Govaniana, Wall. Cat. 3699. 

 S. himalensis, Klotzsch in Herb. Berol. S. deuticulata, var. himalensis, ^Anderss. in 

 Act. Holm. 482. S. elegans, var. himalensis, Anderss. Monogr. Nepal and 

 Kumaon. 



6. S. sclerophylla, Anderss. Monogr. 148; DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 248; 

 branches stout glaucous, buds large, leaves small oblong quite entire 

 glabrous base rounded or subcordate, catkins small sessile short ovoid-oblong, 

 base not leafy, male erect, fem. curved, bracts obovate obtuse tips brown or 

 not ciliate, capsules sessile conic beaked hoary, stigmas sessile stout 

 spreading. Salix, No. 8 and 10, Herb. Strach. Winterb. 



NORTH- WESTEEN HIMALAYA and TIBET; Laptal, alt. 15,000 ft., Strachey $- 

 Winterbottom ; Dras, alt. 10,000 ft., Thomson. 



A stout much-branched shrub, flowering before leafing ; branches glaucous. 

 Leaves 1 in., rigid, pale beneath ; nerves strong, arched. Male catkins -| in. Disk 

 surrounding the base of the capsule, which is about in. long. Anderssou compares 

 this with the European 8. repens, L., in habit ; he makes 2 varieties, a. glabra, with 

 leaves glabrous and bright green on both surfaces, and ft. pubesccns, with rigid leaves 

 apiculate rounded at both ends and white villous on both surfaces, but especially 

 beneath. 



** Capsule stipitate (stipes very short in S. fragilis) ; style produced. 



S. FRAGILIS, Linn. Sp. PL 1017 ; a tree, branchlets smooth polished 

 fragile at the insertion, leaves lanceolate caudate-acuminate glandular- 

 serrate glabrous young hairy, stipules ^-cordate deciduous, catkins on 

 leafy peduncles, bracts long narrow pale, male cylindric drooping, stamens 

 2-4 free, fem. longer slender, capsules narrowly conic shortly stipitate 

 glabrous narrowed into a 2-fid style, stigmas 2-fid. Anderss. in DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. ii. 209 ; Brand. For. FL 466 ; Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 609 ; 

 Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 1184. 



Cultivated in LAHOUL and WESTEEN TIBET. DISTBIB. N. and W. Asia, 

 Europe. 



A tree, 80-90 ft. (in Europe), flowering after leafing; branches divaricate. 

 Leaves 3-6 in., green, silky when young ; petiole often glandular at the top. Disk 

 2-glandular. Capsule in. Crack- Willow. 



7. S. hastata, Linn. Sp. PL 1017 ; shoots silkily hairy, leaves oblong 

 to lanceolate obtuse acute or apiculate toothed glabrous or midrib and 



