Refugium Botanicum. | (February, 1869. 
TAB. 55. 
C. Simonsit (Hort.) Frutex mediocris, ramis paucis erecto-patentibus, 
foliis oblongis, apice subdeltoideo-mucronatis, basi paullulum rotun- 
datis, sesqui longioribus quam latis, supra subobscure saturate viri- 
dibus, infra pallide viridibus, primum tenuiter albo-sericeis, demum 
calvatis, fructibus turbinatis, saturate coccineis. 
A native of Khasia. 
A middle-sized bush, with a few elongated erecto-patent 
branches. Fully-grown leaves an inch long by about five-eighths 
of an inch broad, oblong, deltoidly narrowed from above the 
middle to a mucronate apex, the lower half slightly rounded, the 
upper surface a duller green than in the last, the lower pale 
green, thinly silky when young, but nearly or quite naked when 
mature. Berries bright scarlet, turbinate, three-eighths of an 
inch deep by a quarter of an inch broad. 
This has the drupe of rotundifolia, but the habit is different, 
and the leaves are different in shape and texture, and not at all 
distichous.—J. G. B. 
I am quite unacquainted with the origin of this plant. I first 
saw it at a nursery at Weymouth, from whence I obtained my 
stock. It seems to come nearest in habit to Cotyledon buxifolia 
(see Tab. 52), and is supposed to be from India. It appears to 
be quite hardy, grows freely in any good soil, and may be 
increased by seeds or cuttings.—W. W. S. 
