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Plants of the Punjab. 



Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



, Petals none. 



enclosed in bracts, calyx minutely toothed, styles 3-5 •, 

 acorn cylindric, 1-1| in. long, tip conical, cup very thick, 

 grey, bracts closely pressed together, tips narrow. 



Seeds with a tuft of long white hairs. 



Salix Wallichiana, 



Bivir, hhains. 

 Salicine^. 

 F. B. I. V. 628. 

 The Plains to 

 9,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mahasu, 

 Fagu (Collett). 



Salix elegans. 



Bail, hitsu, hada. 

 Salicine^. 

 F. B. I. V. 630. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-11,000 ft. 

 Jaku, Simla 

 (Collett). 



Salix hastata, 



Salicinb^, 

 F. B. I. V. 630. 

 Himalaya, 

 9-15,000 ft. 

 Hathu, Marali 

 (Collett). 



Salix viminalis, 

 The Osier, 



Bitsu. 

 Salicine^. 

 F. B. I. V. 631. 

 Himalaya, 

 .5.9,000 ft. 



large, bark greenish-grey, young parts velvety or 

 woolly becoming nearly smooth ; leaves 2-5 in. long, 

 lanceolate, long-pointed, margins usually even, green 

 and hairy above, white silky velvet beneath, nearly sessile ; 

 flowers in spikes (catkins), hanging or erect, 1-4 in. long, 

 appearing before the leaves, 1-3 leaves at the base, bracts 

 black, male spikes 1 in. long, stout, stamens 2, female 

 spikes 3-5 in., styles forked ; capsules | in., downy, 

 slender, shortly stalked, stigmas erect, nearly sessile. 



large, branches dark green, young parts grey vel- 

 vety ; leaves 1-3, ovate or oblong, pointed or blunt, finely 

 toothed or not, smooth above, pale beneath, shortly stalked, 

 often attacked by an orange fungus ; flowers appearing 

 after the leaves on leafy spikes (catkins), 1^-5 in. long, 

 bracts yellow, velvety, male spikes compact, stamens 2, 

 female spikes slender, drooping, much longer, stigmas 

 nearly sessile, divided ; capsules | in., conical, shortly 

 stalked, smooth. 



small, shoots silky, branches dark brown or black ; 

 leaves 1-3 by f-2 in., acute or abruptly pointed, teeth 

 small, stalk J-| in., stipules large, broadly ovate ; flowers 

 appearing with the leaves, in nearly sessile spikes, 

 with small leaves at the base, 1-7 in. long, silky, bracts 

 oblong, blunt, just visible in the long silky hairs, male 

 spikes 1-1| in. long, compact, cylindric, stamens 2, female 

 spikes 2-7 in. long, styles thread-like, stigmas divided, 

 spreading, fruiting spikes 7 in. ; capsules ^- 1 in. long, 

 smooth, nearly sessile, ovoid, beaked. 



large, branchlets slender, flexible ; leaves 4-5 in., 

 lanceolate, long-pointed, smooth above, silvery silky 

 beneath, margins even, turned over, stipules linear-lan- 

 ceolate ; flowers appearing before the leaves, in bright 

 yellow nearly sessile spikes, 1-4 in. long, bracts tipped 

 with brown, or black silky hairs, male spikes nearly sessile, 

 1 in. long, erect, stamens 2, female spikes 2-4 in. long, style 

 slender, stigmas slender, spreading ; capsules | in., beaked 



