636 CXLI. SALICINEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Salix. 



A prostrate shrub with branches about a foot high, or (according to Brandis) 

 with a stout trunk, and prostrate and rooting rarely erect brown branches. Leaves 

 1 in., rather broadest above the middle, narrowed at both ends, dull green above, 

 margin narrowly revolute, hoary beneath. Male catkins li-2| in., flexuous ; 

 filaments free, much longer than the bracts, and anthers didymous, brownish ; fern, 

 shorter, more dense-fld. ; bracts rounded, longer than half the white capsule. This 

 has no affinity with the preceding species. 



SECT. III. SYNANDR-53. Stamens 2, filaments more or less connate. 



23. S. pycnostachya, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 44; DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. ii. 309 ; branches shining, leaves lanceolate subacute flat quite 

 entire or serrulate glabrous young silky beneath, catkins stout males on 

 leafy peduncles cylindric, bracts minute obtuse yellow tips brown ciliate, 

 filaments connate, capsules sessile ovoid silky, style short tip thickened, 

 stigmas short broad erect 2-fid. Brandis For. Fl. 470. S. purpurea, L. ?, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA in the drier regions, and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 12-15,000 ft., 

 wild and cultivated. 



A shrub, 6-7 ft., or a small tree attaining 16 ft., with a trunk 2 ft. girth and 

 divaricate branches, flowering after the leaves ; shoots silky ; branches violet brown 

 red or blackish. Leaves 2-3 in., midrib prominent; nerves many, oblique, incon- 

 spicuous ; petiole y^j in., and midrib often with galls. Catkins nodding: bracts 

 oblong ; filaments united throughout ; fern. 2 in. Capsule -^ in., subacute, base 

 gibbous. Andersson 'Compares this species with the European 8. rubra and S. 

 daphnoides. 



VAR. alpina, Hook. f. ; Anderss. in DC. 1. c. ; smaller, branches slender yellowish, 

 leaves pubescent on both surfaces, male catkins very short with brown rounded 

 obovate bracts. 



24. S. oxycarpa, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 45 ; DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. ii. 310 ; shrubby, branches hoary or glabrate, leaves lanceolate acute 

 entire or subset-rate old rigid glabrous shining glaucous beneath, stipules 

 small ^-lanceolate, catkins (appearing before the leaves) sessile very long 

 flexuous lax-fld., bracts yellow or brown, capsules large sessile elongate- 

 conic acute silky, style very short, stigmas short subclavate. Brandis 

 For. Fl. 471. S. zygostemon, Boiss. Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kishtwar, alt. 6-11,000 ft., Thomson. 



Brandis describes this as differing from S. pycnostacTiya only in the flowers 

 appearing a little before the leaves, the larger more pubescent serrate leaves, black 

 bracts of the male, and brown of the fern, catkins, and which latter attain 4 in. 

 The filaments are united to the middle, and capsules \ in. long, Anderssou describes 

 it as very close indeed to the N. Persian S. zygostemon, Boiss. ; he makes 2 varieties, 

 ft. serrata (serratifolia in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 46) with sessile very lax catkins 

 4-5 in., leaves 3 in. exactly lanceolate acutely glandular-serrate, midrib and nerves 

 yellowish elevated glaucous beneath, capsules rufesceut glabrous, from Simla, 8000 ft., 

 Thomson, and which I cannot distinguish from 8. daphnoides ; and 7. breviuscula, 

 with narrow lanceolate remotely serrulate leaves glabrous on both surfaces opaquely 

 glaucous beneath, shorter catkins, and silky at length glabrate capsules. 



25. S. angustifolia, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 699; branches slender 

 glabrous, leaves very narrowly linear subsessile silky or glabrate, midrib 

 prominent, margins revolute, catkins subsessile leafy at the base male very 

 small, bracts oblong or linear obtuse glabrous yellow, filaments connate, 

 capsules sessile silky narrowed into the short style, stigmas spreading cleft. 

 Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 315 ; Brand. For. Fl. 471 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 iv. 1187 ; Trautvett. Salicet. 627, t. 3. 



