Salix.] CXLI. SALICINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 631 



nerves beneath hairy, stipules broadly ovate or ^-cordate, catkins subsessile 

 or shortly peduncled robust with small . leaves at the base, male cylindric 

 compact silkily hairy, bracts subspathulate dark, stamens 2, anthers 

 yellow, fern, longer, capsules stipitate glabrous, style filiform, stigmas 

 spreading 2-fid. Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 259 ; Brand. For. Fl. 

 467; BeicJib. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 570; Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 1191. S. ar- 

 busculaP Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. 8f T. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, in the inner ranges, and TIBET, from Garwhal westwards, 

 alt. 9-15,000 ft. SIKKIM ; at Tallinn Samdong, alt. 11,500 ft., J. D. H. DISTHIB. 

 N. and W. Asia, Subalpine Europe. 



A small shrub, flowering and leafing together ; branches dark brown or black, 

 glabrous. Leaves 1-3 by |-2| in., membranous, green on both surfaces but paler 

 beneath; petiole -| in. ; stipules large or 0. Male catkins 1-1^ in. ; fern. 2-7 in. 

 Disk half as long as'the stipes of the ovary. Capsules - in., ovoid, beaked. The 

 Sikkim specimens are in leaf only, and the leaves are 3-4^ in. long. .Andersson 

 refers them to S. hastata. 



*** Capsules sessile or subsessile ; style produced (very shortly in 

 S. longifiora & Lindleyana). 



f Trees or large shrubs, leaves glabrous glaucous sillcy or villous 

 beneath. 



8. S. daphnoides, Villars Delph. iii. 765; branches shining or glau- 

 cous, buds large downy, leaves oblong- or linear-lanceolate acuminate serrate 

 shining above glaucous beneath, nerves prominent, stipules ^-cordate acu- 

 minate, catkins sessile stout, bracts black-tipped villous, male erect, 

 stamens 2 free, anthers yellow, fern, longer nodding, capsule subsessile 

 glabrous, style filiform, stigmas diverging entire. Anderss. in DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. ii. 261 ; Brand. For. >/. 469, t. 62 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 377 ; 

 Reiclib. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 602, 603 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 1191. S. daph- 

 noides, var. indica, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 46. S. acutifolia, 

 Willd. Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. <$f T. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kumaon westwards, from 2500 ft. in the outer 

 ranges to 15,000 in the inner and in WESTERN TIBET. DISTEIB. N. and W. Asia, 

 Europe. 



A large shrub, or a tree attaining 60 ft., and trunk 9-12 ft. in girth, flowering 

 before leafing; branchlets yellowish or reddish. Leaves 3-5 in., broader in the lower 

 elevations ; nerves many, glabrous or silky beneath ; stipules lanceolate in the Indian 

 forms (^-cordate in European). Male catkins 1-1| in., cylindric ; fern. 2-4 in. Disk 

 surrounding the base of the ovary. Capsules with the style in. 



9. S. insignis, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 47 ; DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. ii. 262 ; shrubby or arboreous, branches stout glaucous, buds large, 

 leaves elliptic lanceolate acuminate at both ends glandular- serrate glaucous 

 (or silky) beneath sometimes silky on both surfaces, stipules ^-cordate 

 persistent, catkins sessile with brown deciduous basal scales, male stout, 

 bracts black with yellow hairs, stamens 2 free, fern, longer acute erect, 

 bracts obtuse glabrate, capsules shortly stipitate conic puberulous, style 

 short, stigmas stout erect entire. Brand. For. Fl. 470. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Kunawur to Kashmir, alt. 5-12,000 ft. 



Perhaps a variety of S. daphnoides (as named by Andersson in Herb. Wall.) with 

 puberulous longer stipitate capsules, shorter styles, and often very silky leaves. 

 Andersson describes a hirsute form with narrower leaves, and tomentose shoots. 



10. S. viminalis, Linn. Sp. PI. 1021; shoots silky, leaves linear- 



