632 CXLI. SALICINE.S:. (J. D. Hooker. ) \_Salix. 



lanceolate acuminate reticulate above silvery-silky beneath, margins entire 

 revolute, stipules linear-lanceolate (or ^-cordate), male catkins sessile, 

 bracts brown- or black-tipped silkily ciliate, stamens 2 free yellow, fern, 

 much longer subsessile cylindric, capsules subsessile tomentose, style 

 slender, stigmas slender spreading. Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 264; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 470 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 377 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 

 t. 597 ; oiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 1191. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Jamu westwards, alt. '5-9000 ft. DISTRIB. N. and 

 W. Asia, Europe. 



A shrub or small tree, flowering before the leaves, branchlets slender flexible. 

 Leaves 45 in., pubescent or glabrate above. Male catkins 1 in., erect, golden 

 yellow; disk -gland narrow ; fern. 2-4 in. Capsules in., beaked, narrowed into the 

 style. The Osier. 



VAE. Smithiana stipules i- cordate, leaves broader, style shorter. Anderss. in 

 DC. 1. c. 267. S. Smithiana, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. 1008 ; Anderss. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. iv. 48. Sikkim, alt. 5-8000 ft. Brandis refers a Sikkim willow collected 

 by me at 58000 ft. in Sikkim to this. Andersson regards the European Smithiana, 

 which is common in osier-grounds, as a hybrid between viminalis and Caprea. The 

 Sikkim plant is probably S. eriophylla of the Khasia Mts. 



11. S. obscura, Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 269; a diffuse shrub, 

 shoots tomentose, leaves elliptic or linear-lanceolate acute dull green above 

 brown when dry, beneath glabrous or subsilky reddish or glaucous, margins 

 entire or very remotely toothed, fern, catkins sessile, bracts minute acute 

 black tips hairy, capsules small sessile broadly ovoid puberulous, style 

 slender thickened upwards, stigmas very short erect entire. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Lachen, alt. 9-14,500 ft., J. D. H., Pantling. 



Branches stout, smooth, bark black. Leaves 2-3 in., midrib pubescent above, 

 young villous and somewhat shining beneath; stipules not seen. Fern, catkins 

 1-li in., narrowly cylindric. Capsules about T ^ in., conic-ovoid, narrowed into the 

 style. Possibly a form of S. viminalis. 



12. S. sikkimensis, Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 269 ; branches 

 very stout angled glaucous, leaves (young) ovate-lanceolate obtuse quite 

 entire glabrous above densely silkily villous and coppery beneath, male 

 catkins subsessile with deciduous basal leaves stout curved villous, stamens 

 2 free, bracts obovate-cuneate villous tip toothed densely villous with long 

 hairs, fern, as long but narrower, capsules sessile conic densely silkily 

 villous narrowed into the deeply cleft style, stigmas sub-2-fid brown 

 spreading. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 9-14,000 ft., J. D. H. t &c. 



A tree, becoming shrubby at higher elevations, branches smooth, erect, shining, 

 bark very dark. Leaves (not mature) 1-1| in., dark brown when dry. Catkins about 

 1 in., silky ; male very stout, f in. diam. Capsules f in., nearly hidden by the 

 villous bracts. Anthers linear-oblong. Style nearly as long as the capsule. 



13. S. Daltoniana, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv.49 ; DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. ii. 269 ; branches black, leaves lanceolate acute, margins flat quite 

 entire or minutely glandular-serrulate silky and coppery beneath, catkins 

 on leafy peduncles very long slender flexuous, bracts linear-oblong or 

 spathnlate yellow-brown tip notched or crenate hairy, capsules small sessile 

 narrow silky at length glabrous, style very slender cleft, stigmas slender 

 flexuous entire or 2-fid. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 0-14,000 ft., J. D. H. BHOTAN, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 

 4498). 



