Refugium Botanicum. | |Pebruary, 1869. 
TAB. 54. 
C. rorunpironta (Wall. Cat. No. 663). Frutex humilis, ramis strictis 
patentibus sepe elongatis, foliis rotundatis vel rotundato-obovatis, 
subsequilongis et latis, seepe horizontaliter distichis, distincte mu- 
cronatis, utrinque rotundatis, supra saturate nitide viridibus, infra 
pallidioribus, cite calvatis, fructibus turbinatis, saturate coccineis.— 
C. microphylla var. uvaursi, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1187. 
The wild specimens we have seen were gathered by Dr. 
Hooker in Sikkim, at 9—1100 feet; and by Griffith in Bhotan, 
at 8000—-9500 feet. 
A bush one or two feet high, with wide-spreading long straight 
rigid branches. Well-developed leaves measuring half an inch 
each way, round or with a slight obovate tendency, distinctly 
mucronate, rounded from the middle to both ends, the upper 
surface a dark shining green, the lower much paler, at first 
shehtly silky, but becoming quite naked when mature, the vena- 
tion more distinct than in any of the other forms. lower three- 
eighths of an inch across when expanded. Serry turbinate, a 
brighter scarlet than in the other forms, more than a quarter of 
an inch deep by a quarter of an inch broad. 
Easily recognisable by its round leaves soon naked beneath, 
and bright-coloured turbinate fruit. The leaves of the elongated 
branches are often quite horizontal, and spread distichously.— 
Ip AOR 8x 
This is the most beautiful of the smaller Cotoneasters, with 
brilliant shining scarlet berries clothing the branches in autumn. 
It is a dwarf undershrub, growing two to three feet in height, 
with ascending branches. ‘The leaves are not all retained on the 
plant during the winter, many of them falling before the new 
season of growth commences. It is well worthy of cultivation, is 
hardy, grows freely in any good garden light soil, and can be 
freely increased by seeds, layers or cuttings. 1 am indebted to 
the late Dr. Royle for my plants, which were raised from seeds 
he presented to me.—W. W. 8S.’ 
