634 CXLI. SALICINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Sali jr.. 



lialf buried in the soil with ascending short branches. Leaves small, usually 

 coriaceous and strongly nerved. 



17. S. Serpyllum, Anderss. in Jour n. Linn. Soc. iv. 55; DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. ii. 292 ; leaves very small subdistichous obovate- or elliptic-lanceolate 

 flat serrulate towards the tip pale or glaucous beneath, catkins terminating 

 long leafy branchlets short subclavate dense-fld., stamens '2 free, bracts 

 rounded cuneate black crispily hairy at length glabrous ciliate, capsules 

 sessile turgid glabrous a little longer than the black oblong bracts, style 

 long 2-cleft, stigmas yellow shortly 2-fid. S. longipes, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 S. f. fy T. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 10-14,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Stem and branches stout, creeping and rooting ; leafing branchlets slender, very 

 short. Leaves |-| in., lingulate, deep green above, narrowed into the petiole, sub- 

 glaucous beneath. Male catkins f-1 in., erect ; fern. 1 in. ; filaments brown, base 

 woolly. Capsules ^ in., turgidly conic, brown. Represents S. Myrsinites of the 

 European Alps. 



VAE. pusilla, Anderss. in DC. 1. c. 293 ; branchlets longer, leaves 1 in., margins 

 subrevolute glaucous beneath, catkins in. on shorter peduncles. 



18. S. flabellaris, Anderss. in Act. Holm. 497 ; in Sot. Seise Pr. 

 Wald. 120, t. 90 ; DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 295 ; branches prostrate very stout, 

 leaves long-petioled obovate or broadly obovate acute or obtuse crenulate 

 glabrous paler or glaucous beneath, catkins on leafy branchlets usually 

 very short few-fld., stamens 2 free, bracts lingulate-obovate glabrous dark, 

 capsules subsessile 'turgidly ovoid quite glabrous red, style not long, 

 stigmas entire. Brand. For. Fl. 471. S. lucida, Jacguem. mss. S. 

 obovata, Wall. Cat. 3698. S. rotundifolia, Herb. Boyle. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Kashmir, alt. 11-15,000 ft., Royle, &c. 

 SIKKIM ; at Lachoong, J. D. H. 



A procumbent shrub ; branches angled, glabrous, reddish, subflabellately leafy. 

 Leaves f 1 in., bright green above, paler beneath with reticulate nerves, rounded 

 spathulate or obovate ; petiole ^ in. Male catkins about 1 in., bracts subcrenulate ; 

 anthers yellow ; fern, as long or longer, purplish; bracts half as long as the red 

 capsules; rachis glabrous. Distinguished from 8. Lindleyana & calyculata by the 

 larger glabrous leaves green on both surfaces. Andersson suggests this being a 

 Himalayan form of the European S. arctica, from which it differs in broader crenu- 

 late leaves, longer catkins and brown capsules. Duthie sends specimens from Kumaon 

 with red or yellow leaves 2 in. , petiole - f in., and fern, catkins 3 in. The smooth red 

 capsules i in. long are very characteristic of all the specimens. 



19. S. Lindleyana, Wall. Cat. 3697 ; a prostrate creeping and rooting 

 shrub, leaves petioled small oblong-lanceolate quite entire serrulate or 

 crenulate glabrous glaucous beneath, catkins on short leafy branchlets ovoid 

 few-fld., bracts oblong-obovate quite glabrous, capsules shortly pedicelled 

 much longer than the bracts conic quite glabrous, style minute, stigmas 

 stout. Anderss. in Act. Holm. 1850, 499; Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 56; DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. ii. 296 ; Brand. For. Fl. 471. Salix, No. 12 and 14, Herb. Sir. 

 4" Wint. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon, alt. 11-14,000 ft., to Sikkim, ascending to 

 16,000 ft. 



Branches often running along the ground. Leaves variable in breadth and 

 serrulation. Catkins -1 in. Capsules i- in., dark brown, valves narrower than 

 8. flabellaris. Andersson has two varieties, latifolia, with leaves - in., serrulate 

 almost throughout, and microphi/lla, with narrower leaves $-$ in., deeply channelled 

 down the centre and with revolute margins. He likens the species in habit (only) to 



