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SPECIES VII—-SA LIX TRIANDRA. “Linn.” Koch. 
Prates MCCCXII.—MCCCXY. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DCV. and DCVI. Nos. 1256 to 1260. 
Billot, F). Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2363. 
Wimmer, Sal. Europ. p. 12. Anders. Mon. Sal. p. 23. 
Leaves lanceolate-oblong or oblong-elliptical, acute, callous-serrate, 
dark green and shining above, paler and often glaucous beneath, 
glabrous on both sides, at length subcoriaceous. Stipules generally 
large, half-ovate-cordate, blunt. Catkins opening at the same time as 
the leaf-buds, on short lateral branches, with 2 or 3 leaves at the base, 
ascending cylindrical, rather thick, lax. Catkin-scales obovate in the 
male catkins, and oblanceolate-strapshaped or strapshaped in the female 
catkins, glabrous, or with shaggy hairs towards the base, and a few 
longer ones on the inside. Stamens 3; filaments hairy at the base. 
Capsule ovate-conical, obtuse, glabrous, on a stalk 3 to 5 times as long 
as the nectary; style scarcely any; stigmas short, thick, notched or 
bifid, recurved. Underside of the young leaves sometimes with a few 
hairs. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Prate MCCCXIIL. 
Reich. Ic, Fl. Germ. Fig. 1259. 
S. triandra, Linn. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1435, and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 166. Hook. 
Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 156. 
Young twigs not furrowed. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, narrowed 
towards the base, paler or glaucous beneath. 
Var. 2, Hoffmanniana. 
Prate MCCCXIV. 
S. Hoffmanniana, Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 168. Borrer, in E.B.S. No. 2620, Hook. 
Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 357. 
Young twigs not furrowed. Leaves broadly elliptical-lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, rounded at the base, pale green, not glaucous beneath. 
Stipules larger and more rounded than in var. a. 
