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dersson), Nepal: without precise locality, 1821, N. Wallich (No. 3699*. type 

 of S. elegans; with fruits); Punjab : Sirmore, G. Govan & Karnrup (No. 3699'", in 

 part. Herb. Wallich). 



AFGHANISTAN. Kurrum valley, /. E. T. Aitchison (No. 413; c? and 9 ). 



So far as I know this species does not occur in the eastern Himalaya nor in China. 

 Burkill (in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 528 [1899]), confused it with another species. 

 For further information see the keys on pp. 77 and 78. 



No. 9 of Strachey & Winterbottom seems to be a smaller high-alpine form. The 

 bracts are glabrous. It looks somewhat intermediate between S. denticulata and 

 S. flabellaris Andersson. 



Andersson described the following variety, of which I have not seen a specimen: 



Salix denticulata, var. himalensis Andersson in Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. 

 Handl. 1850, 482 (1851). 



Salix elegans, jS Govaniana WalUch, Cat. No. 3699" (nomen nudum) (1829). 



Salix himalensis Klotzsch in herb, (ex Andersson). 



Salix elegans, var. himalensis Andersson in Jour. Linn. Soc. IV. 51 (1860); in 



Suensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. VI. 168 {Monog. Salic.) (1867). 

 Salix elegans, var. Govaniana Andersson in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 257 

 (1868). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 630 (1888). 

 INDIA. Kashmir: without precise locahty, W. Hofmeister (ex Andersson); 

 " Serinagur, 8000 feet," G. Govan (No. 3699^ Herb. Wallich, in part); Punjab: 

 Sirmore, G. Govan & Kamnip (No. 3699*', Herb. Wallich, in part, ex Wallich). 



" Taller, leaves larger, almost lanceolate, more sharply serrulate, more glaucous 

 beneath," fide Andersson and Hooker. 



59. Salix dissa Schneider. See p. 52. 



60. Salix dyscrita Schneider. See p. 53. 



61. Salix Biondiana Seemen in Bot. Jahrb. XXXVI. Beibl. LXXXII. 32 (1905). — 

 Leveille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LVl. 297 (1909). 



CHINA. Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, top of mountains, June 1900 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 2045, co-type; bush 1.2-1.5 m.; d'). Shensi: " Pao-ki-scen, 

 Miao-wang-shan," July, Hugh Scallan (No. 5361, type; Herb. Giraldi; 9, ex 

 Seemen). 



I have seen only a d^ co-type of this species (Herb. N. York Bot. Gard.), the 

 flowers of which have a rather long ventral gland two-fifths the length of the 

 bracts, and a very small dorsal gland from one-third to one-fourth as long as the 

 ventral gland. The bracts are oblong, rounded at the apex, while von Seemen says : 

 " bracteis late ovatis irregulariter dentatis." According to von Seemen the dorsal 

 gland seems to be somewhat larger in his t3T)e, and the c?" flowers have sometimes 

 3 stamens, a fact 1 did not observe in the co-type. Among the plants collected by 

 Wilson for the Arboretum I have not found a specimen agreeing with the co-type or 

 with Seemen's description. The fruits are described as " sitzend, kurz diinn grau 

 behaart," the style as short and thick, the stigmas as " oval, tief ausgerandet, 

 aufrecht gabelig," the gland as "a basi lata truncata capsulae ]4 aequante." The 

 species of this section are very difficult to distinguish, and a careful field study of 

 them is needed. 



62. Salix erioclada Leveille in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. III. 22 (1906); in Bull. 

 Soc. Bot. France, LVI. 299 (1909); Fl. Kouy-Tcheou, 381 (1915). 



CHINA. Kweichau: " Mont^e de Pia-Fong h Sa-Jang," March 4, 1905, J. 

 Esquirol (No. 567, type; cf )• 



I have only seen a cf catkin and two small leaves of the type which were kindly 



