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Arbutus Andrachne. Oriental 

 Strawberry-Tree. 



Class and Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. ovata : ore 5-fido ; basi pellucida. 

 Bacca 5-locularis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Arbutus Andrachne; caule arboreo, foliis ovatis integris 

 serratisque, paniculis pubescentibus erectis, baccis poly- 

 spermis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 56. Bot. Reg. 113. 



Arbutus Andrachne. Sp. PL 566. Bieb. Fl. taur. cauc. 

 1. p. 312. Willd. Sp. PL 2. p. 617. Duham. arb. 

 ed. nov. 1. 76. t. 22. Prodr. fl. grcec. I. p. 274. 



Andrachne frutescens spica erecta, foliis ovatis integerrimis 

 et serratis. Ehret in Philos. transact. Vol. 57. p. 1 14. 

 t. 6. 



Arbutus folio non serrato. Bauh. Pin. 460. 



Adrachne Theophrasti. Clus. Hist. 1. p. 48. Bauh. Hist. 



Vol. 1. part. 1. p. 87. Park. Theatr. 1490. f. 2. Raj. 



Hist. 2. p. 1577. 



Lamarck considered the variety with leaves quite entire at 

 the margin as a distinct species, but the form of the leaves 

 differs considerably in different specimens, and even on the 

 same tree, not only in the margins being entire or slightly 

 serrated, but in approaching more or less to a round-oval, or 

 to a lanceolate form. The most remarkable circumstance in 

 this species is, that in the spring it sheds the old red bark, and 

 the young bark is at first green, then turns whitish, and 

 afterwards to different shades of brown, and finally, on the 

 approach of winter, to a deep red. 



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