Salix.] CXLI. SALICINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 637 



WESTERN TIBET ; Nubra and Shayuk Valleys, alt. 11-12,000 ft., Thomson. 

 DISTEIB. Soongaria, N. Persia and the Caucasus. 



A shrub, 4-15 ft., flowering after leafing, branches strict, shoots silky. Leaves 

 1-3 by T V~g in., gubsessile, rigid, sometimes denticulate. Catkins suberect, male 

 in., fern, f-1 in.; filaments united throughout. Capsules ^ in., longer than the 

 bracts; stigmas red. Andersson describes the capsules as sessile (which they are) in 

 the diagnosis, but as distinctly stipitate in the remarks that follow it. 



26. S. divergrens 9 Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 316; a small exces- 

 sively branched shrub, leaves small oblong or obovate-oblong obtuse or 

 acute glaucous green above quite entire beneath paler glabrous silky or 

 glaucous, catkins on short leafy peduncles oblong-ovoid dense-fld., bracts 

 rounded obovate villous with white hairs, filaments connate, capsules minute 

 sessile ovoid-conic densely silky, style minute yellow, stigmas stout entire 

 erect. S. myriceefolia, Anderss. in Act. Holm. 1850, 483 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 iv. 53. 



NORTH-WESTERN HIMALAYA, in the interior ranges of Zanskar and Kishtwar 

 alt. 12,000 ft., Thomson. 



A shrub, about a foot high, with widely divaricate rather stout branches. Leaves 

 shortly petioled, | f in., tip often rounded and apiculate. Male catkins %-% in. ; 

 filaments united above the middle, fern, longer, bracts pale. Disk-gland pale, reaching 

 the base of the capsule. Capsules -^ in., twice as long as the bracts. Andersson 

 says of this that it is altogether analogous to the S. ccesia, Vill., of the Alps, nor 

 except by the revolute margin of the leaf of the latter do I see how he distinguishes 

 them specifically. S. myriccefolia, the earlier name of the author, is, I assume, 

 abandoned by him as being quite inapplicable. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



S. UROPHYLLA, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3708 j Anderss. in Act. Holm. 1850, 487 ; 

 Monogr. 5 ; DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 194. The specimens in Herb. Wall, are in ripe fruit 

 only, and too incomplete to found a species upon, and further are from a plant no doubt 

 cultivated at Oude ; they resemble S. acmophylla, but are worthless for any identifi- 

 cation. Andersson refers to it the Javan S. Zollingeriana of Miquel, which from 

 the description is tetrasperma. There is in Herb. Hook, a specimen of apparently 

 the same species from Delhi marked as cultivated. 



S. CALOSTACHTA, Anderss. in Act. Holm. 1850, 489 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 42 j 

 Monogr. 5, from alt. 6000 ft. (Kahvata to Mahadeb, Jacquemont}, described as 

 with the habit of S. alba, but long-stipitate capsules, is probably tetrasperma. 



S. MSTRTILLACEA, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 51. The plant here described 

 is from Sikkim (Lachen, alt. 12,000 ft.), in old fern, fruit only it resembles S. obscura, 

 Anderss., but the shoots and very short petioles are glabrous, leaves | 1 in., elliptic, 

 apiculate, brown on both surfaces. It is omitted in DC. Prodr. 



S. SERICOCARPA, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 43 (omitted by Andersson in 

 DC. Prodr.), is from Kashmir, Thomson, alt. 6000ft., and described as similar to S. 

 alba, but differing in the leaves, bracts and capsules. In Hook. Herb. Andersson has 

 named it a var. of alba, from which it appears to me to differ in the densely silky 

 carpels. 



S. FRUTICULOSA, Anderss. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 53 (not of Kerner) (omitted 

 in DC. Prodr.), from Pindari (Kumaon), StracJiey fy Winterbottom, and Zanskar, alt. 

 15,000 ft., Thomson, is perhaps S. Lindleyana. 



2. POPUIiUS, Linn. 



CHARACTERS AS ABOVE (p. 626). Species about 18, North temperate 

 regions. 



