172 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



INDIA. Kashmir: Kishtwar "alt. 6-11000 ped.," T. Thomson (cf and 9 

 types, ex Andersson); "Tibet, Ladak, Yum Kiom via Kandzi up the Timti La 

 pass," July 2, 1856, Schlagintweit (No. 5261; with fruits); "Tsanskar, Sulle to 

 Padum," June 22-24, 1856, Schlagintweit (No. 6744; sterile). 



This seems to be a very uncertain species. I have received from the Kew Herba- 

 rium a specimen which is supposed to be Andersson's type. But there are three 

 different things upon this sheet. First a fruiting branch to which apparently 

 belongs the small label " Ind. Valley, 7/7/48." These fruits agree very well with 

 those of the co-type of var. breviuscula, and may belong to Andersson's form 

 a. angustifolia (1860). The ovaries are subsessile, the stigmas rather narrow and as 

 long as the short style. The bracts are ovate-oblong, rather obtusish, and light 

 brown. There are also two cf specimens. To one seems to belong a small label, 

 " Kishtwar 8-9000, 19/6/48." Of this specimen the filaments are totally united, 

 only the anthers being free, and are hairy in the lower part. The gland is rather 

 long and narrow, and half as long as the obovate-oblong short silky dark-tipped 

 bract. The old branchlets of both these cf and 9 specimens have the same pur- 

 plish color and are somewhat pruinose; the young twigs are distinctly tomentose; 

 the short stipules of the 9 branch are ovate, acute, or semi-cordate and glandular- 

 serrate; the d^ catkins have short leafy peduncles and are 5-6 cm. long and 1 cm. 

 thick. This c? form does not agree with Andersson's description. To the second 

 cf specimen apparently belongs the main label: "Kishtwar, 6-11000 ped., coll. 

 Thomson," which would be Andersson's type. But Andersson says in his 

 description: " Rami ... in speciminibus masculis a me visis molhter incano- 

 pubescentes . . ." and " Stamina 2, filamentis usque ad medium connatis 

 glabris . . ." In the specimen before me only the very young twigs are tomentose, 

 the " rami " being glabrous, purpUsh and somewhat pruinose as in the other forms. 

 The filaments are united only at the very base and are very hairy on the lower 

 third. The gland is shorter and somewhat broader than in the other c? specimen, 

 the obovate-oblong hght-brown bracts are very silky on the inner surface and 

 nearly glabrous except at the very base on the outer surface. The young leaves 

 show no difference in shape, color, etc. from those of the other specimens. 



There is perhaps another cf form mixed with those mentioned above, repre- 

 senting Andersson's <f type with pubescent branches and glabrous filaments 

 imited for half of their length. 



Salix oxycarpa, var. breviuscula Andersson in Jour. Linn. Soc. IV. 46 

 (1860); in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 310 (1868). 



INDIA. Kashmir: " Zanskar, alt. 10-14000 ped.," T. Thomson (fruiting 

 type). 



According to the co-type this variety agrees well with the 9 form mentioned 

 above. Schlagintweit's No. 5261 differs slightly in the very sessile stigmas. If 

 the cf specimen with the completely united stamens does belong to the same 

 form, this variety could be kept as a distinct species much like S. pycnostachya 

 Andersson, but differing in its hairy ovaries. Further study of good material ia 

 needed to prove whether this 9 plant belongs to the typical S. oxycarpa or to a 

 different species. 



173. Salix myricaefolia Andersson in Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 1850, 483 

 (1851); in Jour. Linn. Soc. IV. 53 (1860). 



Salix fruticulosa Andersson in Jour. Linn. Soc. IV. 53 (1860), quoad plant. 9. 



Salix divergens Andersson in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 316 (1868). — 



Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 637 (1888). — Brandis, Ind. Trees, 639 (1906). 



INDIA. Kashmir: " Kishtwar, 12000 ped.," T. Thomson (cf and 9 types of 



S. divergens); "Zanskar, 15000 ped.," T. Thomson (9 type of S. fruticulosa of 



