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Salix. } CERATOPHYLLEA. 989 
% Ovary sessile or stipitate, 1-celled; ovules few or many, on 2-4 
subbasal or parietal Peete erect, anatropous; style short or 
0; stigmas short, notched or rurt an ovoid or ga 
2-4-valved capsule. Seeds tok | or many, funicle with a of 
long, silky oe albumen 0; cotyledons plano-convex ; gat 
short, inferio 
879. Salix Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes small and prostrate ; leaves usually 
narrow or small, entire or serrulate, penninerved ; stipules various. 
Flowers small, dicecious, sessile, in erect, usually dense catkins ; 
bracts small, entire or rarely toothed. Perio th 0. Disk of 2 | 
scales, anterior and posterior, or of one posterior te fleshy or 
glandular. ¢ Stamens 2, ra arely 3 or more; filaments filiform, 
free, rarely united, and resembling one filament w ith 2 anthers ; 
anthers usually small. ¢ Ovarz y sessile or stipitate ; placentas 2; 
ovules on each 2-seriate, usually 4-8; style usually short, with 2 
short, retuse or 2-fid arms. Fruit a 2-valved capsule. Seeds with 
penicillate funicle; albumen 0; cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle 
inferior, 
1999. Sanrx TeTRasPERMA Roxb.; F. I. iii. 573; F. B. I. v. 626; 
. 8. 579. 
Chota tee Behar ; iets N. Bengal ; W. Beng: 
al. 
A small tree, 20-40 fee t high. Hind. Baishi, bet; 
Beng. Pani j siabk ; Kol. Nachal; Santal. Gada sigrik 
Order CXXI. CERATOPHYLLEZ. 
Slender, fragile, branched, submerged herbs. Leaves whorled, 
dichotomously cleft into sys sed toothed are : se sai 
0. nth 
Owers minute, monceciou ary, sessile. 
or involuere of 6-12 narrow, sbvaete 2-fid segments ‘hone 
80; filaments very short; anthers erect, extrorse ; connective 
) 
truncate or 2-toothed at apex; canta pane 
Perianth of the male. Ovar ary sessile, ovoid, 1- celled ; ovule 
Solitary, pendulous, orthotropous; style subulate, sti on 
One side. Fruit a small coriaceous, ovoid or ellipsoid, somewhat 
compressed nutlet, terminating in a long, subulate style, with a 
Spur projecting he above the base on either side. Seed pendu- 
us; testa membranous; albumen 0; embryo sea pac al 
thick ; radicle short, colasion: ; plumule many-leave 
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