SALIX TETRASPERMA. (Nat. order Salicacete.) 



SaLIX, Town.— GEN. CHAR. Flowers diseoious, arranged in more or leas lax aments. Scales lanceolate or concavo-rotundate or obovale, 

 entire and glauduloso-crenulate towards the apex, turns glauduliforrn entire or ring-like or sub-cyathiforin or in 2 gland-like bodies. Scarnens 2-12) 

 filaments filiform free or connate at the base, ovary glabrous or hairy often pedicellate, style elongate or obsolete entire or cleft, stigmas 2 thick short aud 

 entire or 2-lobed. Capsule 1-celled 2-valved, valves bearing the seeds near the base. Seeds 4-many erect coinose, embryo exalbuminous orthotropa!, radicle 

 inferior. Large trees or shrubs, leaves alternate lanceolate to obovate, j.ennivejned. 



►5ALIX TETRASPERMA. (Roxb.) A large tree, leaves linear to ovato-lanceolate apiculate serrulate, shining above 

 whitish below, membranaceous to coriaceous, 2-4 indies long by 1-1| broad, arnents peduncled or subsessile, the peduncles with or 

 without leaves. Male aments yellowish, 2-5 inches long, sweet scented. Scales woolly, entire subrotund or oblongo-spathulate. 

 Stamens 5-12, filaments free villous at the base, torus of 2 gland-like bodies. Female aments shorter than the male greenish, scales 

 •woolly spathulate glauduloso-crenulate. torus annular or suburceolate, ovary on a long stipe, style obsolete, stigmas 2, each 2-lobed. 

 Capsule ovate, seeds 4. Eoxl. Ft. Ind. iii. p. 753 ; — Wight Icones tab. 1954. S. ichnostachya, Wight Icones tab. 1953. 



Tim tree is very common throughout this Presidency from sea level vp to 7000 feet, and in Bengal, and it also extends to Java, bid is 

 absent from Ceylon; it is almost always found in the vicinity of water. 1 have never known the timber used for any purpose except firewood ; it is 

 said to be tough and elastic, and it weighs 37 lbs. the cubic foot. The tree floioers in January and February, and it is readily propagated from 

 cuttings ; it ii called Walloonj or Bucha on the Bombay ghats, and Baishi in Hindostanee. 



Analysis. 



3. A branch of the male tree in flower (collected on the Anamallays, 4000 feet elevation.) 



2. Branch of the female tree in young fruit (S, Canara plains, sea level.) 



3. Magnified portion of the male inflorescence. 



4. A male flower, Bhewing 10 stamens— -they vary from 5 to 12. 

 o. An anther, front view. 



6. A portion of an anient of young fruit. 



7. A young fruit or capsule. 



8. The same burst into 2 valves, shewing the cottony masa which envelopes the «eed. 



9. Transverse section of the same, the 4 seeds immersed in wool. 

 10. Vertical section of the same. 



11 & 12. Male flowers, shewing 6 and 7 stamens. 



1 3. Magnified portion of a female ameut. 



14 & 15. Female flowers. 



16. Vertical section of the ovary. 



17. Transverse section of the ovary. 



(Xob. 1 to 10 drawn from dried specimens, the male from 400Q feet elevation, the female from sea level ; Nos. 11 to 17 drawn from living 

 specimens collected at 7000 feet on the Nilgiris.) 



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