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Information differs from the type in the young branches being tomentose and the leaves longer and wider with entire or sparsely subserrulate margins. null

Information leaves rather thicker, oblanceolate or lanceolate, often broadest near the apex, 9–10 lin. long, 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. broad in the broadest part, subacute or rounded at the apex, mucronate, pallid beneath; catkins densely villous. null

Information branchlets pendulous, larger than in the type; leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate, long acuminate. null

Information a shrub about 6 ft. high; branches at first densely whitish-villous, later glabrescent, brown and somewhat rugose; leaves oblong-lanceolate, sometimes ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, the largest 2 1/4 in. long and 1 in. broad, usually 1–1 1/2 in. long and 5–6 lin. broad, smaller on the catkin-bearing branchlets or peduncles, mucronate, acute or acuminate at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, entire or sometimes remotely and obscurely serrulate, thinly covered above and densely beneath with grey silky hairs, sometimes subglabrescent above; petiole 1 1/2–3 lin. long; stipules brown, membranous, obliquely ovate, 3/4–1 lin. long, silky-hairy, soon deciduous; catkins appearing with the leaves; peduncle 4–6 lin. long, bearing 2–4 subsessile lanceolate leaves, 6–9 lin. long and 2 1/2–3 lin. broad; male catkins cylindric, 8–15 lin. long, 2–3 lin. broad, densely white-tomentose on rhachis and bracts; bracts ovate to obovate, about 1 lin. long and 3/4 lin. broad; disc-glands fleshy, about 1/4 in. long, irregularly lobed, crenulate or emarginate; stamens 3–7; filaments villous; female catkins (in fruit) ovoid-cylindric, 6–12 lin. long, rather dense; disc-gland rather more than 1/4 lin. long, irregularly toothed, completely surrounding the pedicel; pedicel 1/2– 2/3 lin. long; capsule ovoid, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, 1 1/4 lin. broad, glabrous. null

Information Deciduous shrub or small tree 2–10 m. high, much-branched; branches spreading and pendulous, rather brittle. Woody stems dark red-brown or black, shallowly longitudinally furrowed, glabrous or more rarely with short fine light brown ± erect hairs and few inconspicuous small pale lenticels; young stems lighter, often densely short-hairy. Leaves alternate, 11–15 x 2–3.5 cm., narrowly- to linear-elliptic, on juvenile or late season non-flowering growth, and 2–8(12) x 0.5–1.5 cm., linear-obovate sometimes linear-elliptic on mature growth; apex acute sometimes acuminate, mucronate; base cuneate, margin subentire to crenate, serrate or biserrate; lamina chartaceous, markedly discolorous, midgreen above and pale usually glaucous beneath, glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy on midrib and sometimes both surfaces; primary veins often reddish, rather indistinct, 7–13 pairs arching and joining near the margin, often with intermediate shorter finer veins, reticulate venation prominulous above hardly visible beneath; petiole 3–15 mm. long often reddish, glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy as on stem. Stipules minute, suborbicular, 0.2–0.3 x 0.4 mm., irregularly 3-lobed, soon caducous. Catkins terminal on short axillary branches. Male inflorescence 3–9 cm. long, axis fairly stout with abundant long fine tangled hairs. Male flowers (20) 40 or more, spirally arranged, sessile, each subtended by an ovate densely long-hairy greenish-yellow bract 1.5–2.5 mm. long with a rounded or 3-toothed apex; disk divided into 2 unequal, fleshy, ± ovoid, entire or irregularly-lobed glands, 0.7–1.1 mm. long; stamens (5)6–8, filaments 3–5.5 mm. long, hairy mainly in the lower half, anthers rather shortly oblong, 0.2–0.5 x 0.3–0.5 mm. Female inflorescence 1.5–8 cm. long; flowers 15–30 (or more), each subtended by a persistent ovate or obovate acute bract 2–3.5 mm. long, pubescent as in male but more sparsely so on upper surface; disk a minute, usually 5-lobed, fleshy ± horseshoe-shaped, almost cup-like gland surrounding the stipe base; stipe 0.5–1.5 mm. long, glabrous; ovary 2–2.5 mm. long, ovoid; style 0.5–1 mm. long; stigmas 0.3 mm. long, shortly bilobed, ± glabrous. Mature capsule ovoid (3)4.5–6 x 2–2.5(3) mm. with stipe 0.5–3.5 mm. long, glabrous; splitting into 2 valves along longitudinal furrows. Seed 0.6–1.4 mm. long, ovoid, with a large tuft of long fine white hairs ± twice the seed in length.