Refugiun Botanicum. | (February, 1869. 
TAB. 50. 
C. taymarouia (Hort.) Frutex humilis, ramis strictis brevibus con- 
gestis, sepe decurvatis, foliis perparvis, oblongo-obovatis, duplo 
longioribus quam latis, apice rotundatis egre mucronatis, basi paul- 
lulum rotundatis, supra nitide saturate viridibus, infra pallidis 
glaucescentibus, tenuiter albo-sericeis, fructibus perparvis, coccineis, 
depresso-globosis. 
Collected by Dr. Thomson at Simla, at 10,000 feet; and by 
Dr. Royle in the North-western Himalayas. 
A bush under a foot high, with congested crowded often de- 
curved branches. Leaves obovate-oblong, under a quarter of an 
inch long by an eighth of an inch broad, a bright shining dark 
ereen and naked above, flattish, with the edges and very faint 
mucro often slightly decurved or the apex slightly emarginate, 
the lower half a little rounded to the base, the lower side glau- 
cous and permanently thinly white-silky. Expanded flower not 
more than a quarter of an inch across. Berry depresso-globose, 
crimson, not shining, two lines deep by an eighth of an inch 
broad. 
This form is, so far as we know, unpublished, but it is grown 
not uncommonly in gardens under the above name. It is ex- 
ceedingly lke microphylla in the shape and clothing of the 
leaves and shape and colour of the berry, but all upon a smaller 
scale.—J. G. B. 
A very pretty neat little evergreen undershrub, having very 
small leaves and purplish red berries. It is quite hardy, likes a 
light rich garden soil, and is readily increased by cuttings, layers 
or seeds. My plants were raised from seed kindly furnished me 
by the late Dr. Royle, who procured them from Northern India. 
—W.W. S. 
