Refugium Botanicwn. | [Pebruary, 1869. 
TAB. 52. 
C. puxiroura (Wall. Cat. 661). Frutex mediocris vel altus, ramis elon- 
gatis vel erecto-patentibus, foliis oblongis vel paullulum obovatis 
duplo longioribus quam latis e medio utrinque rotundato-attenuatis, 
apice mucronatis, supra saturate viridibus, infra glaucescentibus, 
conspicue albo-sericeis, margine ciliatis, fructibus coccineis, de- 
presso-globosis.— Wight. Ic. t. 992. C. marginata, Hort. 
A native of the temperate region both of the Neilgherries and 
Himalayas. 
A bush attaining sometimes a height of six or eight feet, with 
elongated, not crowded, usually ascending branches. Leaves 
oblong or slightly obovate, measuring three-quarters of an inch 
long by three-eighths or rather more broad when fully developed, 
distinctly mucronate, slightly rounded, especially upwards, from 
the middle to both ends, the apex subdeltoid, the upper surface a 
duller green than in microphylla, the lower decidedly glaucous 
and permanently white-silky, with the edge more distinctly cili- 
ated than in either of the other forms, from which it is often 
called marginata in gardens. Flowers over three-eighths of an 
inch across when fully expanded. Berry dull crimson, depresso- 
globose, a quarter of an inch deep by rather over a quarter of an 
inch broad. 
A larger laxer bush than microphylla, with duller leaves, twice 
the length and breadth of those of that form when fully deve- 
loped, and much more oblong in shape; the berry similar in size 
and shape, but a duller crimson.—J. G. B. 
This evergreen species grows freely in any good garden soil, 
and is quite hardy. It is well suited for covering walls, and 
when properly managed produces a very pleasing effect, from the 
abundance of its box- -Shaped shining leaves and crimson berries. 
Like most of the other species of this section of Cotoneaster, it 
is freely increased by cuttings, layers or seeds. This is another 
species which I raised from seed furnished to me by the late Dr. 
Royle. ‘The seeds were from the North of India.—W. W. S. 
