tf. o. salicinej:. 1217 



Sigrik (Santal) ; Bbesh (Garo) ; Bbi (Assam) ; Pani jama 

 (Beng.); Laila, bainsnj (N.-W. India); Bis, bitsa, bakshel 

 (Pb.) ; Yir (Kashmir) ; Valunj, bacha (Dec.) ; Atrupalai (Tarn.') ; 

 Etipala (Tel.) ; Atrapala (Mai.) ; Momakha (Burm.l ; Niranji 

 (Kan.); Sufaida, badha (Sindh) ; Wullunj, bacha (Bombay); 

 Boch, bach (M.) ; Dhanie (C. P.) 



Habitat : — Throughout tropical and Sub-tropical India, from 

 the Punjab eastwards to Mishmi, Assam and Munnipore and 

 southwards to Travancore. 



A moderate-sized, deciduous tree, 20-40ft. Bark rough, with 

 deep, vertical, rough fissures. Wood red, soft, porous, even- 

 grained. Flowering after leafing ; trunk stout, attaining 10ft. 

 girth ; head large; branches sub-erect. Young shoots and young 

 leaves silky ; branchlets and underside of leaves sometimes 

 pubescent. Leaves 3-6in., glabrous, glaucous beneath, lanceo- 

 late, rarely ovate-lanceolate, minutely and regularly serrulate, 

 acuminate. Lateral nerves numerous, prominent. Petiole 

 j-lin. Stipules ovate or orbicular, deciduous. Peduncle leaf- 

 leaving. Male catkins 2-4in., on leafy branchlets, sweet-scented ; 

 bracts obovate or spathulate, pale, hairy ; stamens 5-10. Anthers 

 minute. Female catkins 3-5in. long ; bracts pale, smaller. 

 Disk small, i annular. Capsules long, stipulate, glabrous or 

 pubescent, in groups of 3-4. Pedicels as long as the capsule, 

 iV|-in. long. Stigmas 2, spreading, sub-sessile, generally 

 entire. Seeds 4-6. Fruiting catkins, sometimes 5in. 



Uses : — The bark is stated by Dalzell and Gibson [Flora of 

 Bombay, p. ii., p. 82) to be of some account as a febrifuge. Mr. 

 Long (Journ. oj Agri.-Hort. Soc. of India, 1858, vol. x., p. 43 > 

 states that the bark yields "atonic substance." If by this he 

 means Salicine (the crystalline principle found in some 

 European species of Salix ), he is under a mistake, as Sir W. 

 O'Shaughnessy carefully examined this bark, and failed to 

 detect any trace of this principle. (Bengal Disp., p. G06). (Ph. 

 lnd.) 



1204. S. aemophylla, Boiss., h.f.b.l, v. 628. 



Vern. :— -Bed (Afg.) ; Budha (Sind.); Bisu, bada (Pb.) ; 

 Jalmala (Dehra Dun.) 

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