Salix.] CXLI, SALICINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 633 



A small tree, becoming a shrub at high altitudes ; shoots puberulous. Leaves 

 1-3 in., dull green above with impressed nerves. Male catkins 1 in. ; fern. 4-6 in., 

 erecto-patent, peduncle tomentose with 3-4 short leaves rounded at the base ; bracts 

 broadest at the tip, often notched or 2-fid. Capsule T ^ in., gradually narrowed into 

 the style. 



VAB. crassijulis, Anderss. in DC. 1. c. 270 ; leaves smaller, catkins 1 in. dense-fld., 

 bracts broader, style subentire, stigmas shorter. Sikkirn with the type. 



14. S. eriophylla, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 48 ; DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. ii. 270 ; a large bush, shoots tomentose, leaves coriaceous lanceolate 

 acute or acuminate sinuate- crenate dull green above with impressed nerves, 

 densely silvery silky or woolly beneath, catkins shortly peduncled dense-fld., 

 stamens 2 free, bracts broadly obovate densely villous, capsules minute 

 sessile subglobosely ovoid obtuse woolly, style deeply cleft, stigmas suberect 

 2-fid. S. psilostigma, Anderss. in Act. Holm. 1850, 496. S. viminalis, var. 

 stipularis, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f.fyT. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. % T. T. 



A spreading shrub with suberect branches. Leaves 2-4 in., very shortly petioled, 

 base usually rounded or subcordate ; stipules subcordate. Male catkins 1 in., 

 narrow; bracts very obtuse, villous; stamens hairy, anthers yellow; fern. 1^-2 in.; 

 disk narrow. Capsule about -$ in. ; stigmas very short. Andersson seems to have 

 abandoned the name of psilostigma, which has priority in the Linn. Journ. ; he 

 describes the style as nearly hidden by the hairs of the capsule. 



15. S. eriostachya, Wall. Cotf. 3704; branches more or less glaucous, 

 leaves elliptic-lanceolate acute entire sparsely pubescent or silky on both 

 surfaces old glabrate or silky on the midrib, catkins on long leafy peduncles, 

 stamens 2 free, bracts broadly obovate hairy, capsules sessile ovoid-conic 

 pubescent at length glabrate, style 2 -cleft, stigmas long filiform quite entire. 

 Anderss. in Act. Holm. 1850, 493 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 46. 



NEPAL, WallicTi. ?BHOTAN, Griffith. 



A large shrub or a tree, branches reddish or ashy, quite glabrous. Leaves 

 2-2% in., acute at both ends, disk green with an ashy midrib above, pubescence short 

 beneath and hardly glaucous. Fern, catkins lf-2 in., curved, spreading, peduncle 

 pubescent. Capsules - in., angled, dark brown. Andersson regards this as nearest 

 to S. Daltoniana. 



16. S. long-iflora, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 50; DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. ii. 271 ; shoots and petioles silky, branchlets glabrous divaricate, leaves 

 elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acute quite entire dull green above glabrous 

 and glaucous when .old not shining beneath, fern, catkins on leafy peduncles 

 very slender lax-fid, pendulous, bracts obtuse brown glabrous or sparsely 

 pubescent, capsules small sessile broadly ovoid acute quite glabrous, style 

 very short slender 2-fid, stigmas erect 2-partite. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Lachen, alt. 9000 ft., J. D. H., Pantling. 



A small tree, 10-30 ft. ; bark of branches black. Leaves variable; smaller 1-2 

 larger 3-6 in.; petiole slender. Fern, catkins 2-5 in., in. diam., nearly glabrous, 

 flexuous ; bracts -$ in., membranous, shortly villous. Capsules f in., base thickened ; 

 stigmatic lobes spreading. Andersson compares the catkins with those of S. elegans, 

 the leaves with those of S. Daltoniana. In the London Journal and De Candolle's 

 Prodromus Andersson cites longiftora as a plant so named by Wallich in Herb. Hook., 

 but this is an oversight ; on some of the specimens he has himself written " S. 

 longiflora, Anderss." Neither species or name exists in Wallich's Herbarium, nor 

 did Wallich ever see the plant. 



ft Small usually prostrate (S. Thomsoniana is suberect) shrubs, often 



