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2148; bush 4.5 m. tall; fruits); Ching-chi Hsien, thickets, alt. 1600- 

 2700 m., May 1908 (No. 2128; bush 1.8-3.6 m. tall; 9); west of 

 Kuan Hsien, Pan-lan-shan, woodlands, alt. 2700-3100 m., October 

 1910 (No. 4353, tree 5-10 m. tall, girth 0.9-1.8 m., sterile; a somewhat 

 uncertain form); same locality (No. 4352; bush 2.4-4 m. tall; young 

 plants in the Arboretum). Kwei-chou: "Kouy-yang, mont du Col- 

 lege," February and March 1898, E. Bodinier (Nos. 2070, 2102; ex 

 L^veille, sub S. Caprea). Yunnan : " valine de Kiao-me-ti, bords du 

 torrent," alt. 3000 m., April 1913, E. E. Maire (small tree; type of S. 

 Mairei Leveille); " montagnes a Sen-tchai-tse," alt. 2800 m., April 

 1913, E. E. Maire (c/-). 



Whether the other specimens, cited by Burkill, 1. c, really belong to S. Walli- 

 chiana or not, I cannot tell. Henry's No. 5296 (in Herb. Gray) from Hupeh, south 

 of Patung, is a cf specimen, the flower of which seems to have only a single stamen 

 with a hairy filament. Burkill mentions this number in part under S. longiflora 

 Andersson (see p. 121). Henry's specimen resembles S. gracilistyla Miquel, but the 

 gland is short, rectangular or oval, somewhat like that of S. Walllchiana. Andersson 

 describes the filaments as hairy, but I have found them always glabrous, as on 

 Brandis' plate (1. c). The Chinese form seems to agree well with the Indian. I 

 have seen the following specimens from India: 



Kashmir: " reg. temp. alt. 7-8000 ped.," T. Thomson (with fruits); "West- 

 em Thibet, reg. temp. 6-11000 ped.," T. Thomson (with fruits). Kumaon: 

 "Gagar pass, alt. 6000-6500 feet," Strachey <fc Winterbottom (No. 3; with fruits; 

 No. 5; cT and ? flowers); " Kalimat, 6400 feet," Strachey & Winterbottom (No. 

 11; 9). Eastern Afghanistan: Kurrum valley, 1879, J. E. T. Aitchison (No. 

 389); 9; without locality (No. 4501, Herb. Griffith). 



Andersson distinguished 3 varieties of S. Wallichiana: 1. var. a. grisea, in Svensk. 

 Vetensk. Akad. Handl. VI. 80 (Monog. Salic.) (1867); in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. 

 pt. 2, 223 (1868), the type of which was collected by Wallich sub No. 3700 in Nepal 

 and Kumaon; 2. var. h.julacea, 1. c. 81 (1867), 1. c. 224 (1868) (S.julacea Andersson 

 in Svimsk. Vetensk. Handl. 1850, 476 [1851]; in Jour. Linn. Soc. IV. 50 [I860]), of 

 which the type was collected by J acquemont, "in sylvis excelsis supra Hayderabad," 

 alt. 2600-2700 m.. May 3, 1831; 3. var. c. sericea, 1. c. 81 (1867) et 1. c. 224 (1868), 

 collected by Hooker f. & T. Thomson "ad Banahal, reg. temp. 6000-9000 ped." 

 I have seen no specimen of this var. All these forms need a careful study. 



In the type the leaves according to Andersson are " juniora valde tenuia utrin- 

 que pubescentia subtus cano-villosa, adulta glaberrima, nitentia, venis prominuha 

 striata, laete viridia, plana, rigida." Of the cultivated plants from China in the 

 Arboretum there seem to be two forms, one with rather dull green leaves which 

 are softly pubescent beneath, and another with more shining leaves, which are 

 nearly or wholly glabrous beneath. 



From S. Caprea Linnaeus and S. cinerea Linnaeus S. Wallichiana may be chiefly 

 distinguished by its thinner, much less reticulate leaves, which are mostly ovate- 

 oblong and more acuminate. The length of the pedicels seems rather variable; 

 the style is usually very short. 



Salix dolia Schneider, n. sp. 



Frutex valde et breviter ramosus, 0.6-0.9 m. altus; ramuli novelli vil- 

 losuli, annotini glabri v. subglabri, purpurascentes, vetustiores cine- 



