Salix] CVIII. SALICACE.E 637 



A. Trees or large shrubs. 



(a) Fl. with or after the 1., catkins as a rule on leafy peduncles. 



4. S. elegans, Wall.; Collett Simla Fl. 47ri. fig. 156. Vera. Bushal, Kalishan, Sutlej. 

 North-West Himalaya 6-11,000 ft., very common, extending to tlie inner arid valleys. 

 — Turkestan. China. A gregarious shrub, young shoots very minutely pubescent, 

 branchlets glabrous. L. glabrous, often drying black, elongate-elliptic or obovate, 

 entire or minutely serrate, blade 1— 2J, pet. J-} in. long, i catkins slender, 1-1J in. 

 long, bracts obovate, at times emarginate, filaments hairy in the lower portion, some- 

 times more or less cohering, glands 2. 9 fl. frequently occupying the upper portion 

 ■of 6 catkins. 9 catkins 2—4 in. long, leafy peduncles longer than half the catkin, 

 capsule glabrous, style short. 5. S. alba, Linn. Cultivated in the North-West 

 Himalaya, indigenous in Europe. Western and Northern Asia. A large tree with 

 grey foliage. L. white beneath with appressed silky hairs, narrow-lanceolate, denticu- 

 late, stipules lanceolate, deciduous. Capsule pubescent, subsessile, style short bifid, 

 each branch bearing a 2-lobed stigma. 6. S. fragilis, Linn. Cultivated at Alikhel in 

 the Kuram valley, in Gilgit, Ladak and Lahaul, indigenous in Europe and Western 

 Asia. A fast growing middle-sized tree, foliage green, branches divergent, easily 

 breaking off at the junction. L. glabrous or nearly so, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 

 crenate or sen-ate. Catkins 1J-2J in. long. Capsules glabrous, narrowed into a short 

 bifid style. Specimens coll. by Lace, Peshin 5,200, Quetta 5,600 ft., named S. triandra, 

 var. ? in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 319, belong to this species. 7. S. babylonica, Linn. : 

 Brandis F. PL t. 59. Weeping Willow. Majnun. Punj. Cultivated in Baluchistan. 

 Northern India, the Punjab and (less commonly) in 'lie plains further east, also in 

 the Himalaya. Indigenous in Northern China, also reported from Northern 

 Persia and Kurdistan. The female tree was introduced into Europe about the 16th 

 century, and has since that time been propagated by cuttings. In Northern India 

 the S is more common than the 9 tree. A large tree, usually with drooping branches, 

 branchlets glabrous, shining, buds thin, acute. L. glabrous, linear-lanceolate, 3-6 in. 

 long, finely serrulate, si ipules falcate, serrate, i catkins short, cylindric, |-1 in. long. 

 Capsules sessile, conical, glabrous or slightly hairy at the base, stigmas 2, sessile. 



8. s. hastata, I .. mi Norfh-Wesl Himalaya, chiefly in the inner dry and arid valley-;, 

 9-15,000 ft. Also here and there on the outer ranges. Kashmir, Hattti. Sikkini. high 

 up the Lneheii river, 11,500 ft. — Alps and mountains of Central Europe, also in Sean. li- 

 navia. Northern and Western Asia. A small shrub, branchlets glabrous, dark 

 coloured, 1. elliptic or elliptic-oblong, glabrous or midrib and sec. n. hairy beneath, 

 blade 2-4, pet. J-J in., stipules broadly ovate or semicordate. Fl. with the 1., catkins 

 i 1-1A, 9 2-6 in. long. Capsules stipitate, glabrous, style filiform. 



9. S. Daltoniana, And. Lachen and other inner valleys of Sikkim. 9-14,000 ft. 

 Bhutan. A small tree, shrubby at high elevations, branchlets black, glabrous. L. 

 lanceolate. I :i in. long, undersidi' silky and coppery. Catkins slender, ■' 1, 9 4-6 in. 

 long, filaments hairy beln w. Capsule sessile, ^ in. long. 10. s. longiflora, And. Inner 

 Sikkim Himalaya, 9-10,000 ft. A small tree, branchlets and petioles thinly silky, 1. 



glabrous when mat are, lanceolate, entire, blade 1-2, pet. }, in. ? catkins very .slender. 

 nearly glabrous, 2-5 in. long, on leafy peduncles, bracts minute. 11. S. eriostachya, 

 Wall. Nepal. L. oblanceolate, ent ire, sparsely silky on both sides. 9 catkins pubescent, 

 H 2 in. long, bracts hairy, broadly ovate. Capsules sessile, style 2-cleft, stigmas 

 long filiform, i|uite entire. The Bhutan specimens doubtfully referred t" this in Fl. 

 Brit. Iml. v. i;:s:s fl. before the I. 



ih Fl. Iicl'nrc tie- 1., catkins sessile or nearly BO. 



12, S. Wallichiana, And. : Brandis F. FL t. 61.— Syn. S. i/ritea. Wall. Vein. Bhaiiuhra, 

 Jniins. Kinaiii vallej in 12,000 ft., common. Himalaya, common 7-8,000 ft., descend- 

 ing to 2,000 and ascending t." 0,000 ft. — Afghanistan. China. A hit go Bhrub or small 

 tree, young shoots grey-sflky, brain hlets, pet iolesand underside of l. silvery pubescent. 



I.. I.'n late, quite entire, blade 2 5, i»'t. J- J in. Catkins densely Bilky, on very short 



peduncles, supported by a fe^ rudi ntaryl., S 1, 9 2— I in.. | brat < apsules 



downy, slender, J in. long, shorl ly stalked, stigmas subsessile. Regarding projections 

 of the wood Into the hark Bee Gamble Ind. Timbers ed. ii. 11*7. 18. S. daphnoides, Vill. ; 



Brandis F. Fl t, 62, Win. Bhathli, Shan, Bash.: Bathroi, Ji - North Wesl 



Himalaya, ■_',"' | »i 15,000 ft . common in the inner arid tract. — Alps ami mountains of 

 Central Europe, descending into the plains alone river valleys. Russia. Siberia. 

 China, A tall shrub or small tree, wood reddish, branohes usually covered with 



glaucous bloom, youngest shoots silky, branchlets glabrous or hoary. I.. I.u late 



or linear-Ian date, glabrous, glaucous beneath, serrate. FL before the 1 . catkins 



denseh silky, i ill. , 8 I in., bi . .it apex, fringed with long silky 



i apsules glahrous or minutely silky, Bubsessile, style long, Blender. 14. s. insignia, 

 And. Kashmir, 6-8,000 ft, Pangi, 12,000 fl I i Lug. 1899). l'iti 11,000 fl T 

 Tl son, Sept, 1847). A large shrub, branchlets tomentose, stipules semi-cordate, . 



