Refuyium Botanicum. | (Debruary, 1869. 
TAB. 49. 
C. MicropHyiya (Wall. Cat. No. 662). Frutex humilis ramis strictis 
brevibus patentibus, foliis parvis oblongo-obovatis, duplo longiori- 
bus quam latis, apice rotundatis, emarginatis vel mucronatis, basi 
subcuneatis, supra nitide saturate viridibus, infra pallidis glauces- 
centibus, tenuiter albo-sericeis, fructibus coccineis, depresso-glo- 
bosis..—Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1114. 
The wild specimens of this form we have seen are from Bho- 
tan, 7500—10,000 feet, Griffith ; Cashmere, 8000 feet, Falconer ; 
Simla, 8—10,000 feet, Dr. Thomson; Sikkim, 9—14,000 feet, 
Dr. Hooker ; Kumaon, 7000 feet, Strachey and Winterbottom. 
Bush three to four feet high in a good situation; the branches 
short, stiff, crowded and spreading. Leaves obovate-oblong, 
three-eighths of an inch long by about half as broad when fully 
mature, a shining dark green and quite naked above, flat, and 
often with the edge a little decurved and the slight mucro bent 
down, or the apex sometimes emarginate, the under side glau- 
cous and permanently thinly silky, the base subcuneate or a little 
rounded. Fully-expanded flower three-eighths of an inch across. 
Berry depresso-globose, crimson, not shining, a quarter of an 
inch deep by rather more broad.—J. G. B. 
This now very common evergreen undershrub has a drooping 
and very graceful habit of growth, and seems to be quite hardy. 
It is valuable for planting on steep banks and rock-work, where 
it produces a very pleasing effect at all times, but particularly 
late in the autumn, when it is covered with small red berries, a 
beautiful contrast to its small glossy green leaves. It will grow 
well, trained against a wall, and will mount, with good manage- 
ment, to a height of ten or twelve feet. In this situation it 1s 
often attacked by a small brown scale-insect, which does the 
plant much injury, causing the leaves to turn yellow and drop oif, 
and eventually the plant dies of exhaustion, without the scale be 
removed. The plant seems to thrive in almost any soil, and is 
freely increased by cuttings, layers and seeds.—W. W. S. 
