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charcoal. The branches are lopped for fodder, and the twigs are 

 much used by basket-makers. Many varieties of this polymorphous 

 plant are mentioned in the Fl. Brit. Ind., the majority of which must 

 be regarded merely as representing geographical forms. Thus Sir 

 Joseph Hooker distinguishes the prevalent N. W. Indian form as 

 compared with the southern and eastern ones. In the former the 

 leaves are usually longer and narrower and become pale-green or 

 yellowish when dry, and the nerves are more oblique. The pale- 

 coloured capsules also are larger and on shorter stalks. In the 

 southern and eastern forms the leaves are usually shorter and broader 

 and with the upper surface shining, and they are dark- brown when 

 dry ; the nerves too are nearly horizontal, and the capsules are 

 smaller and dark-coloured and usually with longer and more slender 

 stalks. From my own observations I am inclined to believe that the 

 southern form extends as far north as Mt. Abu and Bundelkhand. 



2. S. acmophylla, Boiss. Diagn. vii, 98 ; Fl. Or. iv, 1183 ; 

 Brandis For. FL; Ind. Trees 636 ; F. B. I. v, 628 ; Watt E. D. ; 

 Kanjildl For. Fl. (ed. 2), 388 ; Gamble Man. 686. Vern. Jalmdla. 



A moderate -sized glabrous tree, with the trunk up to 7 ft. in girth ; 

 branches lax, forming a rounded crown ; branchlets often pendulous. 

 Leaves 2-5 in. long, linear-lanceolate, the upper ones caudate-acu- 

 minate, entire or serrulate, glaucous beneath. Catkins short, shortly 

 stalked ; bracts scale-like, ovate or oblong, concave villous. Male 

 catkins 1-2 in. long, cylindric, dense-flowered. Stamens 4-6. Fern, 

 catkins nodding, 1 in. long, bracts .deciduous . Capsules ovoid-oblong, 

 on short stalks ; stigmas sessile, short, entire. 



Dehra Dun and Saharanpur forests, Siwalik range and Sub-Himalayan 

 tracts from the Ganges westwards, often cultivated. Flowers after 

 the leaves appear. Distrib. : Himalayan valleys up to 6,000 ft. and 

 westwards to Afghanistan and Baluchistan where it is much culti- 

 vated for cattle fodder. It is also grown to some extent in gardens 

 as an ornamental tree. Brandis regarded this tree as intermediate 

 between S. tetrasperma and the W. African S. Sufsuf. A local form 

 found in Dehra Dun with reddish fragile branches, gland-serrulate 

 leaves, and male flowers always with 6 stamens pay prove to be a 

 distinct species. 



S. BABYLONIOA, Linn. ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii 9 754 ; Brandis For. Fl. 465, 

 t. 59 ; Ind. Trees 637 ; F. B. I. v, 629 ; Gamble Man. 6SS. Weeping 

 willow. Largely cultivated in the plains of N. W. India in gardens 

 and on canal banks, also on the Himalaya up to 9,000 ft. It is culti- 



