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Plants of the Pimjdb. 



Trees with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals none. 

 Seeds several, each enveloped in a Tuft of White Silky Hairs. 



Leaves shortly stalked. 



Salix alba. 

 White willow, 



Bis, changma. 



SALICINEiB. 



F. B. I. V. 629. 

 Himalaya, Simla, 

 introduced (Coilett). 



Salix babylonica, 

 Weeping willow, 



Beda, majnun. 



Salicine^. 



F. B. I. V. 629. 



The Plains to 9,000 ft. 



Baluchistan (Lace). 



Salix fragilis. 

 Crack willow, 



Salicine^. 

 F. B. L V. 630. 

 Lahoul. 



Salix daphnoides, 



Beli, shun, thail. 

 Salioine^. 

 F. B. Lv. 631. 

 Himalaya, 3-15,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mahasu. 



Salix oxycarpa, 



Populus nigra, 

 var. pyramidalis, 

 Lombardy Poplar, 



Frast, safeda. 



Salicine^. 



F. B. I. V. 638. 



The Plains to 10,000 ft. 



Kashmir, Lahore. 



Baluchistan (Lace). 



branchlets green, yellow, red or purple ; leaves 2-0 

 in. long, narrow, white with silky hairs beneath, minutely 

 toothed ; flowers appear after the leaves on leafy stalks, 

 flowering stalks (spikes) 1-3 in. long. 



like S. Alba, but with long drooping branches and the 

 leaves not so white beneath as in S. Alba. 



medium size, branches smooth, polished, fragile at 

 their insertion ; leaves 3-6 in. long ; flowering after 

 leafing, flowering stalks (spikes) leafy (cultivated only 

 in Lahoul and Western Tibet). 



bark smooth, greenish grey ; flowers appear before 

 the leaves, flowering stalks (spikes) 1-4 in. long, silky. 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 

 Leaves long stalked. 



large, sometimes planted, is easily recognised by its 

 pyramidal shape, other characters like the following 

 species of Populus, but leaf 2-4 in., stalk 1-2| in. long, 

 male flowering spikes short, stamens 15-30, female spikes 

 4-6 in. loner. 



