120 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



INDIA. Kumaon : " Pindari, alt. 12000 feet," Strachey & Winterhottom (No. 

 13; d" and 9). 



The types of S. fruticulosa and of S. furcata Andersson both came from Pindari. 

 Andersson, in 1868, made apparently a mistake in confounding these two specimens. 

 But there are some other points to clear up. In 1860 the 9 plant is described: 

 " capsula sessilis . . . dense sericea, . . .; stylus vix conspicuus; stigmata brevis- 

 sima," as it is the case, except that there is a very short pedicel in Anderson's 9 

 co-type from Zanzkar I have before me. There is, however, a different 9 plant 

 from Pindari with: "capsulis sessilibus . . . glabris . . . stylo bipartito, laciniis 

 erectis, stigmatibus integris capitatis," as described by Andersson in 1868. This 

 9 specimen has the same reddish brown branchlets as the cf co-type, while the 

 Zanskar plant has branchlets with "cortice glabro fusco-nitente vel testaceo inter- 

 dum glaucescente." After all the 9 plant of the type belongs to S. myricaefolia 

 Andersson, see p. 172. The real S. fruticulosa Andersson (1860), not Kemer (1864), 

 the systematic position of which is yet uncertain, may be described as follows: 



Fruticulus ut videtur parvus, breviramosus; ramuli satis crassi, rubro-brunnei, 

 deinde cinerascentes, novelli villosuli. Folia novella paulo evoluta lanceolata v. 

 oblanceolata, basi acuta, apice obtusiora, superne viridia, glabra, nervis paulo 

 impressis, subtus glaucescentia, costa piUs sericeis obtecta v. mox glabra, costa 

 nervisque vix prominulis margine tenuiter inciso-denticulata, rarius subintegra, 

 vix 10 mm. longa et 4 mm. lata, brevissime petiolata. Amenta lateralia, brevi- 

 pedunculata, basi foliis parvis suffulta, densiflora, rhachi laxe villosa; cf 1-1.5 cm. 

 longa, circiter 0.9 cm. crassa; 9 ovato-oblonga, 1 cm. longa, sed nondum satis 

 evoluta; flores d^ diandri, filamentis liberis basi pilosis bracteas paulo superanti- 

 bus, antheris ovato-globosis, violaceis, glandula ventralis anguste oblonga, )/^ brac- 

 teae aequans; dorsalis subaequilonga, tenuior; bracteae obovato-oblongae, apice 

 plus minusve truncatae, denticulatae, flavescentes v. violascentes, nervatae, 

 glabrae; ovaria sessilia, glabra, juvenilia bracteis brevnora, stylo bipartito sub- 

 aequilongo stigmatibus brevibus emarginatis capitatis coronata; glandula una 

 ventralis, late ovata, obtusa v. lobulata, compressa, ovario juvenili ^ brevior; 

 bracteae iis florum cf similes, dorso sericeae. 



Sect. 13. LONGIFLORAE Schneider, n. sect. 



Frutices breviter ramosi. Folia parva v. mediocra, elliptica, elliptico-rotunda, 

 elliptico-lanceolata v. rarius oblanceolata, Integra (v. indistincte denticulata), 

 subtus pallidiora, cinerea v. glauca, pleraque tantum initio distincte pilosa. Amenta 

 coetanea pedunculis fohatis instructa, v. rarius subpraecocia, subsessilia, cylindrica, 

 densi- v. sublaxifiora; flores cf diandri, glandula una ventrali instructi, staminibus 

 liberis basi pilosis, bracteis obovatis obtusis; ovaria sessilia v. subsessilia, glabra v. 

 pilosa, stylis nullis v. plus minusve distinctis, stigmatibus sessilibus brevibus bifidis 

 angustioribus, glandula una ventrali, bracteis obovatis v. oblongis obtusis. 



This section differs from the Denticulatae chiefly in the single gland of the cf 

 flowers. The species, of which only the 9 flowers are known, are doubtfully 

 included here, but the co-type of S. longiflora Andersson is so much like S. 

 cathayana Diels that I use the name Longiflorae for this section. 



66. Salix hjrpoleuca v. Seemen. See p. 53. 



Salix hypoglauca, var. platyphylla Schneider. See p. 53. 



67. Salix rhoophila Schneider. See p. 54. 



68. Salix polyclona Schneider. See p. 55. 



69. Salix mictotricha Schneider. See p. 56. 



