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 *[Footnote: *fore in the African equinoctial zone. (Lindley, Introduction to the Natural System of Botany, p. 99.) Blume also found two species of Salix near the equator, in Java: one wild and indigenous, S. tetrasperma; and another cultivated, S. sieboldiana. From the southern temperate zone I know only two willows described by Thunberg, (S. hirsuta and S. mucronata); they grow by the side of Protea argentea (which has itself very much the physiognomy of a willow), on the banks of the Orange River, and their leaves and young shoots form the food of the hippopotamus. Willows are entirely wanting in Australia and the neighbouring islands.]*