SALIC ACE AE. — SALIX 95 



INDIA. Rajputana: near Adjmir (Ajmere), March 9-13, 1832, V. Jacque- 

 mont (No. 96, type, cf , ex Andersson). 



According to the description this variety is a quite glabrous tree, only the rhachis 

 of the aments, the bracts and filaments being densely hairy. Not having seen the 

 type or Huegel's No. 526 from the northwestern Himalaya, cited by Andersson in 

 1860, I do not know whether it is a good variety or only a form of S. tetraspcrma. 

 Huegel's specimen may belong to a different variety or to another species from a 

 different geographical region. 



Wight (Icon. PI. Ind. Or. VI. 6, t. 1954 [1853]) figures a form of S. tetrasperma 

 with the bract of the d^ and 9 flowers slightly dentate at the apex. The same char- 

 acter is found on plate 302, fig. 13-14 in Beddome's Fl. Sylv. S. Ind. VI. 302 

 (1874). The bracts of the d" flowers, fig. 11-12 of this plate, are entire. Bed- 

 dome's figures 1-10 represent S. ichnostachya Lindley, and only fig. 13-17 belong 

 to S. tetrasperma. 



2. Salix pyrina Wallich apud Andersson in Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 1850, 

 486 (1851); VI. 4 {Monog. Salic.) (1867); in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 192 

 (1868). 



? Salix disperma D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 58 (1825). 



Salix tetrasperma, var. pyrina Andersson in Jour. Linn. Soc. IV. 41 (1860). — 



Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 627 (pro parte) (1888). — Brandis, Ind. Trees, 



636 (1906). 



INDIA. Nepal: without precise locaUty, 1821, N. Wallich (No. 3705, type of 



S. pyrina, cf); without precise locality, G. S. Perrotet (apparently d^ co-type, ex 



Andersson) ; without precise locality, F. Hamilton (type of S. disperma, ex Don). 



This species differs from the typical S. tetrasperma Roxburgh in its more tomen- 

 tose young branchlets, leaves and petioles which are glabrous on the fruiting 

 branchlets of S. tetrasperma, and in its entire or nearly entire leaves, which seem to be 

 grayish and not very glaucous beneath. In the shape of the bracts and of the cap- 

 sules there seems to be no real difference. The cf plant is unknown to me, as I 

 have seen only Wallich's type by the kindness of the Keeper of the Herbarium of 

 the Royal Gardens, Kew. The fruiting aments have short leafy peduncles and are 

 from 6 to 8 cm. long; the leaves are up to 11 cm. long and to 3.3 cm. wide; the peti- 

 oles are from 5 to 9 mm. in length. 



According to the description 1 believe that S. disperma D. Don is the same species. 

 Don's types were collected in Nepal by Hamilton and Wallich. 



3. Salix Mesnyi Hance in Jour. Bot. XX. 38 (1882). — Burkill in Jour. Linn. 

 Soc. XXVI. 531 (pro parte) (1899). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 

 add. ser. X. 255 {Fl. Kwangtung & Hongk.) (1913). 



CHINA. Kwangtung: "ad ripas liniosas fl. Cantonensis," January 1870, T. 

 Sampson (cf tjqje) ; Kwangsi : " juxta fl. Liang-fung," June 1879, W. Mesny (No. 

 16446, Herb. Hance; 9 type). 



By the kindness of Dr. Rendle, I have been able to see flowers and a photograph 

 of both the types from the collection in the British Museum. The cf flowers have 

 6 stamens which are finely hairy at the base. There are two rectangular separate 

 glands two-thirds shorter than the somewhat obovate obtuse bract which is nearly 

 glabrous on the outer surface, short-villose within and ciliate on the margins. 

 The fruit does not show any remnants of a style or stigmas. The oblong ovary is 

 glabrous, on a pedicel of about one-third the length of the ovary and about twice 

 longer than the gland. There is only one ventral gland which seems to be of the 

 same shape as that in sect. Tetraspermae; the bracts appear to be deciduous. 

 This species has large leaves. It seems to be absent from central China. I do not 



