252 DECANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Arbutus. 



227. ARBUTUS. Strawberry-tree. Bear- 

 berry. 



Linn. Gen.220. Juss. 160. Fl.BrAil. Toitrn. t.368. Lam.t.366. 



Gcertn. t.59. 

 Uva ursi. Tourn. t. 370. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 226. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, small, in 5 deep obtuse segments, 

 permanent. Cor. of I petal, ovate, rather flattened and 

 transparent at the base ; the limb in 5 small, recurved, 

 bluntish segments. Filam. slightly attached to the base 

 of the corolla, and about half its length, awl-shaped, 

 swelling in the middle. Anth. incumbent, of 2 oval cells, 

 opening by 2 terminal pores, and bearing a pair of short 

 horns, or spurs. Germ, superior, roundish, seated on an 

 orbicular ten-dotted receptacle. Style terminal, cylindri- 

 cal, erect, the length of the corolla. Stigma obtuse. 

 Berry globular, of 5 cells. Seeds small, angular, bony ; 

 in Arbutus of Tournefort numerous ; in his Uva ursi so- 

 litary in each cell. 



Trees, or trailing shrubs, with alternate, evergreen, simple, 

 mostly serrated, leaves. Pubescence, if any, bristly. _ Fl. 

 clustered, white or reddish, drooping. Berries various, 

 black or red, smooth or tuberculated, more or less mealy, 

 not very wholesome. 



1. A. Unedo. Common Strawberry-tree. 



Stem arboreous. Leaves smooth, bluntly serrated. Panicle 

 terminal. Berry with many seeds. 



A. Unedo. Linn. Sp. PL 566. Suppl.23S. Willd. v. 2. 616. FL 

 Br. 442. EngL Dot. v. 34. t. 2377. 



Arbutus. Raii Syn. 464. Ger. Em. 1496./. Matth. Valgr. v. 1. 

 24.5./. Camer.Epit.\m.f. Dod. PempL 803./. 804. Bauh. 

 Hist.v. I. p. 1.83./. 



A. folio serrato. Bauh. Pin. 460. MilL Ic. 32. L 48./. 2. 



On limestone rocks In Ireland. 



About the lake of Killarney plentifully. Mr. Crowe. 



Tree, September. 



A bushy tree, of very great size in Crete and the Levant ; the 

 young shoots often red, and rough with glandular hairs. Bark 

 of the main stem reddish-brown, the external layers coming off 

 in thin flakes. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, unequally serrated, 

 bright green, veiny, rigid, on hairy footstalks, without stipulas. 

 Clusters panicled, bent downwards^ smooth. Bracteas oblong. 



