SALICACEAE. — SALIX 47 



This fine species may be distinguished by its serrate acute leaves greenish yellow, 

 glabrous and more or less reticulate beneath, by its thin slender flowering aments 

 and by its small glabrous fruits. These are about 4 or 5 mm. long without the 

 1-2 mm. long pedicels. The almost verticillate arrangement of the flowers on the 

 rachis is the same as in S. magnifica Hemsley, and is more prominent in these 

 two species than in the other species of the sections Magnificae and Erioslachyae. 



Salix Fargesii Burkill in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 528 (1899). — 

 Seemen in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 277, t. 3, fig. a-f (1900); 1. c. XXXVI. 

 Beibl. LXXXII. 30 (1905). — L^veill^ in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LVL 

 299 (1909). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1600-2300 m., 

 June 1 and 5, July and October 1907 (No. 720; shrub 0.6-3 m. tall; 

 with fruits; No. 720"; 9; No. 720''; d' ; No. 720'; sterile); Changlo 

 Hsien, thickets, alt. 600-2000 m.. May 1907 (No. 2156; shrub 0.6-2.20 

 m.; d^); Fang Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1800-2300 m., November 1910 

 (No. 4439; shrub 0.5-1.5 m., often prostrate or procumbent; sterile); 

 same locality May 1900 and later (Veitch Exped. No. 1820; d" and 9 

 flowers and fruits); Changyang Hsien (Veitch Exped. No. 679; ex von 

 Seemen). Eastern Szech'uan: Wushan Hsien, A. Henry (No. 

 5678; co-type; with fruits): Tchen-keou-tin, P. Farges (No. 795, type; 

 cf ; ex Burkill). 



This handsome species is easily distinguished from S. moupinensis Franchet by 

 its mostly larger leaves with a pale under surface, its thicker flowering aments and 

 by the long silky hairs of the bracts. The ovaries mostly bear a longer style only 

 cleft at the apex. Its nearest relative may be *S. Ernesti Schneider which, like S. 

 moupinensis Franchet, inhabits a different geographical region. 



Salix Ernesti Schneider, n. sp. 



Frutex breviter ramosus, erectus, 1.2-6.5 m. altus; ramuli intense 

 purpurascentes, tantum initio sericeo-villosi, mox glabri, vetustiores 

 purpureo-brunnei. Folia elliptica, obovato-elliptica v. late oblanceo- 

 lata, basi obtusa v. acuta (v. in No. 2152 ex parte rotunda v. subaurita) 

 apice subobtusa v. pleraque brevius v. longius acuta, supra sordide viri- 

 dia, plus minusve, costa nervisque distinctius, puberula v. tomentella, 

 subtus cinerea, sericeav.sericeo-villosa v. lanata et submicantia, deinde 

 pleraque plus minusve glabrescentia, costa nervisque prominentibus, 

 sed vix reticulata, nervis parallelis circiter 2 pro 1 cm., margine Integra 

 v. raro satis indistincte undulato-glanduloso-crenulata, minora latiora 

 obtusiora 3-6 cm. longa, 1.5-3 cm. lata, maxima elliptica v. obovato- 

 lanceolata acuta, usque 8-10 cm. longa et 2.2-4 cm. lata v. ad 13 cm. 

 longa et 5 cm. lata; petioli 5-10 mm. longi, undique v. tantum in sulco 



