142 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



Salix Brayi Ledebour, Fl Alt. IV. 289 (1833) ; Icon. PI. Fl. Ross. V. 15, t. 



449 (excl. fig. g-k) (1834). — Trautvetter, Fl. Ross. III. pt. 2, 621 (1850). — 



Andersson in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 293 (excl. var. 7) (1868). — 



Krylov, <I>.i. AAman, 1231 (1909). 

 Salix berberifoUa Pallas, Fl. Ross. I. pt. 2, t. 82 (1788), exclud. descriptione fide 



Trautvetter. 



NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Altai: type collected by A. Bunqe (ex Traut- 

 vetter); " Verchov. r. dscholo, pod Lednikom," July 4, 1901, P. Krylov (cf and 9 

 flowers), without locality (ex Herb. Mus. Bot. Tomsk, fruiting specimen). Kamt- 

 chatka: Kastalsky & Rieder (ex Herder). 



In Krylov's specimen the c?" flowers have two glands, and the bracts are covered 

 with a fine silky pubescence somewhat like those of S. Myrsinites Linnaeus. The 

 fruits are ovate, acute with a pedicel twice longer than the gland and about ^ 

 shorter than the capsule. The serration of the leaves is very sharp and irregular. 



114. Salix flabellaris Andersson in Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 1850, 497 

 (1851); in Jour. Linn. Soc. IV. 54 (1860); in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 295 

 (1868). — Klotzsch & Garcke, Bot. Ergeb. Reise Prinz. Waldemar, 120, t. 90 (1862). 

 — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 634 (1888). — Brandis, Ind. Trees, 638 (1906). 



Salix obovata WalHch, Cat. No. 3698 (nomen nudum) (1829). 



Salix lucida Herb. Jacquemont No. 1160, ex Andersson in Svensk. Vetensk. 



Akad. Handl. 1850, 497 (pro synon.) (1851). 

 Salix rotundifolia Herb. Royle ex Andersson, 1. c. (pro synon.) (1851). 



INDIA. Kashmir : " in humidis herbosis sub jugis versus Soognum," alt. 4000 

 m., August 1, 1829, V. Jacquemont (type of S. flabellaris, ex Andersson); Ku- 

 maon : N. Wallich (No. 3698; co-type ex Andersson); " in alpibus himalensibus," 

 W. Hoffmeister (ex Andersson); Punjab: Kunawur, " reg. alp., 15000 ped.," T. 

 Thomson (with fruits). 



Andersson describes several forms. I have only seen Thomson's specimen and a 

 photograph of WaUich's No. 3698. Judging from Klotzsch and Garcke's plate this 

 species is nearly related to S. berberifoUa Pallas, but the serration of the leaves is 

 much more like that of S. herbacea Linnaeus, the flowering forms of which from 

 the Altai I mention on p. 143 seem to be not imlike some forms of S. flubellaris. 



Sect. 20. HERBACEAE Borrer in Hooker, Brit. Fl. 432 (1830); in Loudon, 

 Arb. Brit. III. 1590 (pro parte) (1838). — Rydberg in Bull. N. York Bot. Gard. I. 277 

 (1899). — Wolf in Izv. S.-Peterburg. Ldesn. hist. V. 110 (Mam. Ksyu. Hffh Espon. 

 Pocc.) (pro parte) (1900). — Seemen in Ascherson & Graebner, Syn. Mittcleur. Fl. 

 IV. 64 (pro parte) (1908). 



Salix, sect. Chamaetia Dumortier in Bijdr. Natuurk. Wetensch. 1825 (Verh. 



Gesl. Wilgen 15) (1825), exclud. S. reticulata. 

 Salix, sect. Glaciates W. D. Koch, De Salic. Europ. Comm. 61 (pro parte) (1828). 

 Salix, sect. Retusae Kerner in Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien X. 195 (Niederostr. 

 Weid.) (I860). — Rydberg in Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. I. 277 (1899).— 

 Seemen in Ascherson & Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. IV. 84 (1908). 

 Salix, sect. Nitidulae (sive Glaciales), subsect. b. Retusae Andersson in De Can- 

 dolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 293 (pro parte) (1868) et subsect. d. Herbaceae An- 

 dersson, 1. c. 297 (pro parte). 



Fruticuli pygmaei, trunco decumbente subterraneo repente, ramulis prostratis, 

 saepe radicantibus. Folia glabra, rotundata, obovata, elliptica v. rarius lanceo- 

 lata, utrinque viridia et reticulata, crasse papyracea, integra v. plus minusve den- 



