Salix] 



CVIII. SALICACE.E 



639- 



Persia and the Caucasus. A shrub or small tree, brancblets glabrous. L. very 

 narrowly linear, rigid 1-3 in. long. Fl. after the 1. £ catkins J, ? j-1 in. long, 

 bracts glabrous, capsule sessile, silky. 31. S. divergens, And. Kishtwar. Baltistan. 

 Zanskar. 12-15,000 ft. A small, much-branched shrub, 1. oblong or obovate-oblong- 

 i~l in. loDg. Catkins, £ \-h in. long, ? longer, capsules densely silky. 



2. POPULUS, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 637. 



Leaves as a rule broad, petioles generally exceeding one-fourth the length 

 of blade. Bracts of catkins caducous, crenate or lobed. Stamens 4— 30 r 

 inserted on the cup-shaped oblique disk, filaments generally less than twice 

 the length of anthers. Capsule usually supported by the flat membranous 

 circular or lobed disk, 2-4-valved, the valves spreading, a placenta along the 

 median line of each valve. Species 18, northern temperate regions. 



A. Leaves more or less lobed, buds pubescent, not viscid. 



1. P. euphratica, Olivier, Brandis F. Fl. t. (i3. Vern. Padar, Bal. : 

 Bahan, Sind ; Bhan, Safedar, Punj. 



A middle-sized, usually gregarious tree, extremities sometimes hoary, buds- 



Fig. 198. Populus euphratica, Olivier. L 



slightly pubescent, not viscid. L. most variable in shape, those of seedlings, 

 young fives, pollard- and coppice-shoots linear, short petiolato. :-i-i; in. long, 

 those of older trees on branches with short internodes, as a rule broad-ovate, 

 rhomboid or cordate, blade 2-3, pet. 1-2 in. The broader 1. are dentate, cut 

 or lobed, while thenarrow 1. are generally entire. Intermediate forms frequent 

 on the same tree and on the same branch, r, bracts oblanceolate, disk Hat, 

 S- cleft, on a long slender stalk, stamens S VI. Capsule lanceolate, 3-valved, 

 j-.l in., on a long slender pedicel. 



i Hi ii in t hr forest l»'lt of si in I along t In- [ndus, particularly in upper and middle 



Sind, where it forms standards over the undent I of Tamarisk, Not uncommon in 



ili,' valleys of Baluchistan and the Suliman range on small feeders of the Indus, up to 

 8,000 it ., a I so here anil t line on the main river below Attock. (in tin- lower course of 

 the Sutlej river. Nubra along the Shayok river 10,000 18,500 ft., forming pure w 

 often of considerable extent. Fl. Febr., nearly leafless Jan, to March. Coppices 

 vigorously and throws up abundant root-suckers. Where subject to inundation tin- 



