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A. Trees or large shrubs. 



(a) El. with or after the l.j catkiBS as a rule on leafy peduncles. 



4. S. elegans, Wall. ; CoUett Simla Fl. 479, fig. 156. Yern. Buslial, Kalishan, Sutlej. 

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

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

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

 •entire or minutely serrate, blade 1-2^, pet. i-l in. long. S catkins slender, 1-1^ in. 

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

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

 of s catkins. ? 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 serrate. Catkins 1J-2| 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 E. Fl. t. 59. Weeping Willow. MajnUn. Punj. Cultivated in Baluchistan, 

 Northern India, the Punjab and (less commonly) in the 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 3 is more common than the 9 tree. A large tree, usually with drooping branches, 

 branchlets glabrous, shining, buds thin, acute. L. glabrous, linear-lanceolate, 8-6 in. 

 long, finely serrulate, stipules falcate, serrate. S catkins short, cylindric, J~l in. long. 

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



8. S. bastata, Linn. North-West Himalaya, chiefly in the inner dry and arid valleys, 

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

 up the Lachen river, 11,500 ft. — Alps and mountains of Central Europe, also in Scandi- 

 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. |-| in., stipules broadly ovate or semicordate. El. with the 1., catkins 



(J 1-lJ, 9 2-6 in. long. Capsules stipitate, glabrous, style filiform. 



9. S. Daltonlana, 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, 1-3 in. long, underside silky and coppery. Catkins slender, <? 1, 9 4-6 in. 

 long, filaments hairy below. 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 mature, lanceolate, entire, blade 1-2, pet. -^ in. ? catkins very slender, 

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

 Wall. Nepal. L. oblanceolate, entire, sparsely silky on both sides. ? catkins pubescent, 

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

 long filiform, quite entire. The Bhutan specimens doubtfully referred to this in Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. v. 633 fl. before the 1. 



(Z>) 'Fl. before the 1., catkins sessile or nearly so. 



12. S. WallicMana, And. ; Brandis F. Fl. t. 61.— Syn. S. griaea. Wall. Yern. Bkaimhra, 

 Jauns. Kuram valley 10-12,000 ft., common. Himalaya, common 7-8,000 ft., descend- 

 ing to 2,000 and ascending to 9,000 ft. — Afghanistan. China. A large shrub or small 

 tree, young shoots grey-silky, branchlets, petioles and underside of 1. silvery pubescent. 

 L. lanceolate, quite entire, blade 2-5, pet. |-J in. Catkins densely silky, on very short 

 peduncles, supported by a few rudimentary I, 6 1, 9 2-4 in., S bracts black. Capsules 

 downy, slender, J in. long, shortly stalked, stigmas subsessile. E-egarding projections 

 of the wood into the bark see Gamble Ind. Timbers ed. ii. 687. 13. S. daphnoides, Vill. ^ 

 Brandis F. Fl. t, 62. Yern. Bhashli, Shan, Bash.; B&shroi, Jauns. North-West 

 Himalaya, 2,500-15,000 ft., common in the inner arid tract.— Alps and mountains of 

 Central Europe, descending into the plains along river valleys. Eussia. Siberia. 

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

 glaucous bloom, youngest shoots silky, branchlets glabrous or hoary. L. lanceolate 

 or linear-lanceolate, glabrous, glaucous beneath, serrate. Fl. before the I, catkins 

 densely silky, S 1-1 J, 9 3-4 in., bracts black at apex, fringed with long silky hairs. 

 Capsules glabrous or minutely silky, subsessile, style long, slender. 14. S. insignis, 

 And. Kashmir, 6-8,000 ft. Pangi, 12,000 ft, (Lace, Aug. 1899). Piti 11,000 ft. (T. 

 Thomson, Sept. 1847). A large shrub, branchlets tomentose, stipules semi-cordate, 9 



