Salix.] LXXI. SALICINEiE. 471 



(12,000-14,000 ft.) Ladak, ascending to 15,000 ft., often found dying at the 

 higher elevations. Cultivated at 13,000 ft. in Ladak. Fl. May, June. The 

 leaves turn red in Sept., before falling. Generally a shrub 6-7 ft. high, growing 

 in clumps in dry stream-beds, at times a small tree 16 ft. high, with a trunk 

 2 ft. girth, and divaricate branches. Bed and brown galls occur on petioles 

 and midrib. 



S. oxycarpa, And. ; DC. Prodr. 310, is a monadelphous willow closely allied 

 to the preceding sp., and only differing by the fl. appearing with or a little before 

 the leaves ; larger, more pubescent, serrate leaves; black scales of male and 

 brown of female catkins, catkins longer and less compact, the female attaining 

 4 in. Kashmir and Kishtwar 6000-11,000 ft. Fl. June. S. Ledebouriana, 

 Trautvetter ; DC. Prodr. 308, of the Baikal and Altai mountains, in Songaria ; 

 Elbrus in North Persia, is similar to S. pycnostachya. S. jwrpurea, Linn. 

 Hook. Stud. Fl. 342 Syn. S. Helix, Linn. Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ., tab. 582- 

 585, is a glabrous shrub, with lanceolate serrate, often opposite leaves, fl. before 

 the leaves, scales dark coloured silky, stamens monadelphous, anthers red be- 

 fore bursting, afterwards black, capsules short, ovoid, obtuse, sessile, stigmas 

 subsessile, ovate. Common in Osier-beds of England, France, and Germany. 

 Europe, North Asia, Persia, and Asia Minor. Mixed with this sp. and S. vim- 

 inalis is often found an intermediate form, believed to be a hybrid between the 

 two : S. rubra, Hudson ; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 586, with leaves soft- 

 pubescent beneath, margin revolute, stigmas linear on a shorter or longer filiform 

 style. 



12. S. angustifolia, Willd. j DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 315. 



A low shrub, with long virgate, glabrous branches ; young shoots silky- 

 pubescent. Leaves narrow-linear, in. broad, subsessile, 1-2 in. long, 

 midrib prominent. Flowers after the leaves in subsessile cylindric catkins, 

 with a few leaves at their base ; scales yellow, oblong, obtuse, glabrous. 

 Stamens 2, filaments connate, bearing two 2-celled anthers. Capsules 

 sessile, grey with silky adpressed hairs, narrowed into a short style bear- 

 ing two 2-cleft stigmas. 



Inner arid Himalaya, 7000-12,000 ft. Iskardo, Shayok and Nubra valley 

 (also cultivated), Zanskar, Afghanistan. North Persia, Songaria, Caucasus, Ural. 

 Fl. May. 



Several species of Willow form small procumbent shrubs on the higher ranges 

 of the N.W. Himalaya ; the more common are : 1. S. flabellaris, Anders. ; 

 Reise Prinz. Waldemar, t. 90, with obovate acute crenate leaves, blade f-1 in., 

 petiole J in. long, scales oblong, as long as capsules ; Dras, Lahoul, Kunawar, 

 11,000 to 15,000 ft. 2. S. Lindleyana, Wall.; DC. Prodr. 296, with small lan- 

 ceolate or elliptic-lanceolate leaves, scales ovate, shorter than capsules. Kamaon 

 (1 1,000-14,000 ft.), Nepal, Sikkim (at 16,000 ft.) Both are wholly glabrous, the 

 catkins appear after the leaves on leafy peduncles, the male fl. are diandrous, the 

 capsules glabrous, and the styles short. They are nearly allied to S. retusa, L. ; 

 Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. tab. 558, which inhabits the Pyrenees and the Alps of 

 Switzerland and Austria, and they are somewhat similar to S. Myrsinites, Linn. 

 Hook. Stud. Fl. 341 ; Reichenb. t. 559, which, however, has longer cylindric 

 catkins, hairy capsules and reticulate leaves. 



