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1. Saurx, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes small or prostrate. Leaves usually 
narrow, penninerved, petioles short. Flowers usually in erect cat- 
kins; bracts small; disk of 1 or 2 separate scales. Stamens 2, 
rarely 3 or more, anthers small, filaments filiform. Ovary sessile or 
stalked; placentas 2; ovules few, 2-seriate on each placenta, usually 
4—8. Fruit a 2-valved capsule-—Distris. Species about 160 with 
innumerable varieties and hybrids, mostly of the Northern Hemi- 
sphere, very few tropical. 
SALIX TETRASPERMA, Roxb. Cor. Pi. I. 66, t. 97 (1795). A 
small tree reaching a height of 12 m., trunk up to 3 m. in girth ; 
bark rough; branches suberect ; branchlets purplish-brown, smooth. 
Leaves submembranous; ovate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, long 
acuminate at apex, attenuate or rounded at base, sometimes 
unequally; green and glabrous above nearly black when dry, white 
and when young more or less silky beneath; margins entire or 
serrulate ; 5—20 cm. long, and 2—5 cm. broad; midrib fairly pro- 
minent ; main nerves 10—20 pairs, curving to and along the margin 
and then joining in diminishing loops; secondary nerves many and © 
prominent, between the main nerves, branching and enclosing the 
areolate reticulation; petiole slender, 1°5—2 cm. long; stipules 
subulate, deciduous. lowers appearing after the leaves: # in 
slender usually lateral villous catkins up to 12 cm. long, more 
or less leafy at base, sessile, single or clustered; bracts ovate, 
obtuse, silky-villous, under 1 mm. long; disk of 2 glands the outer one 
larger and obtuse: 2 in shorter catkins, pedicellate; bracts obovate- 
oblong, acute, villous ; disk of one clasping cup-shaped basal gland. 
Stamens 5—10; filaments free, slender, 2—2°5 mm. long ; anthers 
small, orbicular. Ovary fusiform, glabrous ; ovules usually 4; stig- 
ma sessile, 2-lobed, each lobe again divided. Capsule glabrous, 
ovoid, about 3 mm. long, the 2 valves reflexed, stalk slender about 
4mm. long. Seeds 4-6, the funicle silky-penicillate; cotyledons 
oblong. Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 753; Willd. Sp. Pl. III. 657 ; Anderss. 
Monog. 1, fig. 1 and in DC. Prodr. XVI. ii. 192 ; Wight Ic. t. 1954; 
Brandis For. Fl. 462, t. 58 and Ind. Trees 636; Kurz For. FI. II. 493; 
Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 302 ¢ branch only; Wall. Cat. 3700 A in part, 
3700 E, 3707, 9104, 9106; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. FI. 220; Miq. FI. 
Ind. Bat. I. ii. 460; Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 626; Cooke Fi. 
Bomb. II. 662; Prain Beng. Plants 989; Koord. Exkurs. Fl. Jay II 
