it requires to be carefully protected from extreme cold in 

 winter, and succeeds best against a west wall. Its flowers 

 are of a delicate greenish white, and are arranged after the 

 manner of those of Arbutus Andrachne, to which species it 

 is most nearly allied ; differing however altogether in the 

 form and serratures of its leaves, and in the form and size 

 of its flowers. 



The unripe fruits appear from our dried specimens to be 

 like those of the common Arbutus, only obovate in a slight 

 degree ; the ripe fruit is unknown. The strong root-shoots 

 are covered with scattered bristles, as also are the leaf-stalks, 

 and the leaves themselves on such shoots are very strongly 

 serrated. 



Our drawing was made from a specimen obligingly sup- 

 plied in May last, by Mr. Osborn, the present proprietor of 

 the celebrated Fulliam Nursery, lately occupied by Messrs. 

 Whitley and Co. 



