464 LXXI. SALICINEiE. [Salix. 



A moderate-sized glabrous tree ; branclilets often pendulous. Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, entire, wholly glabrous, pale or glaucous beneath, 2-3 in. 

 long. Flowers after the leaves, catkins on leaf-bearing peduncles ; scales 

 pale, with long silky hairs, those of female catkins deciduous ; male catkins 

 compact, cylindric, erect or slightly nodding, 1-2 in. long, scales and base 

 of filaments with long silky hairs ; stamens 4-6 ; anthers short, elliptic, or 

 nearly circular. Female catkins nodding, 1 in. long, capsules on short 

 pedicels, ovoid - conical, glabrous, style short, with 2 spreading entire 

 stigmas. 



Afghanistan, Sindh, N.W. Himalaya (Indus to Bias), and near Delhi. Often 

 cultivated. Persia and Syria. Fl. Feb., March. A handsome tree with a 

 straight trunk 6-7 ft. girth, often much larger, branches lax, forming a rounded 

 crown, the branchlets often pendulous. About Quetta the tree is much lopped 

 for cattle-fodder. 



Andersson refers to this S. glaucophylla and dealbata, two species previously 

 established by him upon specimens collected in North- West India by Jacque- 

 mont. Some specimens, however, which evidently belong to this species, in Herb. 

 Kew.'were referred by him to S. octandra, Sieber, which is identified with S. 

 Safsaf in his Monographia Salicum, 1863, p. 10, and in the Prodromus, p. 196. 

 Aitchison (Cat. 140) calls the tree S. octandra, Del., and Stewart referred it to 

 S. Safsaf, Forsk. This, however, is a different tree, with serrulate leaves, 8- 

 androus flowers and subglobose capsules on long slender pedicels, common in 

 Nubia, Abyssinia, and Egypt. Geographically, and as regards characters, S. 

 acmophylla appears to be intermediate between S. tetrasperma and Safsaf. 



There is another willow in Afghanistan, apparently intermediate between S. 

 Safsaf and S. acmophylla, with serrulate leaves, wholly glabrous, glaucous be- 

 neath, lateral nerves numerous, distinct, small erect male catkins, stamens 3-8, 

 and large ovoid capsules on long slender pedicels. A low shrub with long red 

 branches, in river-beds near Topchi, with Berberis, Tamarix, Rosa, Hippopha'e, 

 in other places a middle-sized tree with pendulous branches (Griffith). 



S. cegyptiaca, L., is, according to Andersson in DC. Prodr. 196, an uncertain 

 species. Dalzell (Suppl. to Bombay Fl. 81) quotes it as growing on the road from 

 Poona to Kandalla, and describes it with very narrow, almost linear leaves, 

 branches not drooping, and the flowers like those of S. tetrasperma. 



S. triandra, L. ; Hook. Stud. Fl. 336 Syn. & amygdalina, L. ; Keichenb. 

 Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 604, is a large glabrous shrub or moderate-sized tree. Leaves 

 wholly glabrous, oblong-lanceolate, serrate, with glandular teeth, stipules semi- 

 cordate, flowers with the leaves ; catkins on leaf-bearing peduncles. Male cat- 

 kins slender, slightly drooping ; the flowers triandrous, lax ; disc of 2 glands. 

 Capsules glabrous, pedicellate, stigma subsessile. Common in Osier-beds, yields 

 excellent material for basket-work. Bark of old trees exfoliating in thin flakes. 

 Throughout Europe, north to Lapland. Caucasus and Siberia. 



S. pentandra, L. ; Hook. Stud. Fl. 336 ; Eeichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 612, is a 

 glabrous shrub or large tree. Leaves wholly glabrous, viscid when young, 

 shining, subcoriaceous when full-grown, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely 

 dentate ; teeth often glandular. Flowers after the leaves, catkins on long leaf- 

 bearing peduncles. Male catkins compact, cylindric, drooping, the flowers 4-12- 

 generally 5-androus, close together. Capsules glabrous, pedicellate ; stigma sub- 

 sessile. Disc of 2 glands in both male and female flowers. Throughout Europe 

 (north to Lapland), North Asia. 



The bark of the two last-named, as well as that of several other species e.g., 



