SALIC ACE AE. — SALIX 133 



JAPAN. Hondo: prov. Sagami, near Kamakiira, roadsides, May 4, 1914, 

 E. H. Wilson (No. 6602; bush 0.9 m. tall; leaves shinin;^; with fruits); prov. 

 near Yokohama, 1863, R. Oldham (No. 720, type; with fruits); Oyama, April 14, 

 1911 (ex Herb. Sakurai; with fruits); prov. Suruga, Fuji-san, October 1910, M. 

 Koyama (sterile); without precise locality, P. von Siebold (? cT co-type; ex Mi- 

 quel); prov. Musashi, April 13, 1895 (ex Herb. Bot. Card. Tokyo; 9). 



Folia ovato-oblonga, intcrduna acuminata, v. elliptico-oblonga, aut obverse 

 oblonga et turn basi acutiuscula, satis subito brevius v. longius acuta v. subacumi- 

 nata, fere ut in var. typica serrata. Amenta cf nondum cognita; glandula florum 

 9 fere ut in var. padifolia. 



Salix japonica, var. padifolia Seemen, Salic. Jap. 45, t. 8, fig. a-b (1903). 



Salix padifolia Andersson in Mem. Am. Acad. VI. 451 (Gray, Bot. Jap.) (1859); 



in Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. VI. 165. t. 8, fig. 67 {Monog. Salic.) (1867); 



in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 255 (exclud. var. /3) (1868). 

 Salix japonica, f. padifolia Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXVIl. 91 (1913). 



Folia ovato-lanceolata, apice in cuspidem obliquum abrupte producta, margine 

 plus minusve sed non profunde serrulata. Glandula florum 9 , sacpissime latior 

 quam alta. 



JAPAN. Hondo: "ad Simoda," S. W. Williams & J. Morrow (9 tyi^e ex 

 Andersson); prov. Echigo, Mt. Miyokozan, July 17, 1897 (No. 114, ex Herb. 

 Tokyo; with fruits). Hokkaido: prov. Oshima, Hakodate, 1890, K. Miyabe (ex 

 Seemen); see S. vulpina, var. discolor on p. 131. 



Unfortunately there are no tyj)es of Andersson's Willows collected by Williams 

 & Morrow in the Gray Herbarium. Seemen has seen the type of S. padifolia 

 Andersson from the Riks Herbarium at Stockholm. Most of the specimens I 

 have seen which are referred to S. padifolia by Japanese botanists seem to belong 

 to S. vulpina, var. discoZor Seemen or to S. kakista Schneider. Even No. 114 from 

 Echigo mentioned above may not represent the true var. padifolia even if it 

 represents a variety of S. japonica Thunberg. There is, however, a Japanese 

 specimen at the Arboretum from the Herb. Yokohama Nursery Company, April 

 1903, without locahty, consisting of d^ flowers and also old leaves which may be 

 the c? S. padifolia Andersson, as the catkins and flowers resemble those of typical 

 S. japonica Thunberg. It may be described as follows: 



Ramuli foliiferi glabri v. tantum juxta gemmas puberuli, flavo-cinereo-brunnei. 

 Folia late ovato-lanceolata v. paulo obovato-lanceolata, basi rotunda, interdum 

 Bubito brevissime in petiolum producta, apice satis subito breviter acuminata, 

 Bupra ut videtur intense viridia, subtus glauca, utrinque glabra, costa nervisque 

 prominulis graciliter reticulata, nervis sub 80° a costa divergentibus 1-2 pro 1 cm., 

 margine satis regulariter et distanter glanduloso-serrata (dentibus circitcr 3 pro 

 1 cm.), 7-10 cm. longa, 2.2-4 cm. lata; petioli glabri, tantum juxta gemmas supcme 

 pilosi, 8-10 mm. longi; stipulae parvae, anguste lanceolatae, circiter 2-3 mm. 

 longae, integrae v. sparse glanduloso-dentic^ulatac; ramuli floriferi glabri foliiferis 

 simillima. Amenta precocia, breviter pedunculata, foliolis parvis lanceolatis sub- 

 tus sericeis 2-3 suffulta, gTacilia, anguste cylindrica, usque 5 cm. longa (hand 

 perfecteevoluta), vix 6-7 mm. crassa, subdensiflora, rhachi subvillosa; flores cf 

 diandri filamentis glabris ima basi coalitia bracteis 2-2J^-plo longioribus, anthcris 

 parvis fiavis ovalibus; glandula una ventralis, satis crassa, ovato-rectangularis, 

 apice truncato-obtusa, bracteis oblongis obtusis viridi-brunneis fere tantum versus 

 basim albo-sericeo-villosulis 2-3-plo brevior. 



Certainly S. japonica, var. padifolia Seemen needs further observation. The 



