Arbutus. TEN 
involucre variable in number; those of the partial ones almost 
always 3, turned to the outside of the umbel. Fruit about 5 mm 
long. — Flow. March to April. 
M. p. El-‘Arish. — N. v. O. Cultivated everywhere and often 
subspontaneous. 
Local name: kammin. 
Cultivated and subspontaneous everywhere in Northern Africa. Probably 
origin in Algeria, Spain and Turkestania. 
Metachlamydeae. 
Sympetalae. 
Flowers with both calyx and corolla. Petals mostly connate 
often tubular-like. 
Bricales. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees with simple leaves with coriaceous 
texture. Flowers 4—5-merous, obdiplostemonous, bisexual, actino- 
morphous. Petals connate, rarely free. Filaments hypogynous or 
epigynous, rarely connate at the base with the petals. Carpels 
2-5 merous. Ovary inferior or superior. — Seeds with one inte- 
gumentum. 
83. Ericaceae. 
Flowers regular (or nearly so), bisexual. Calyx free, 4—5-fid 
or -partite. Corolla hypogynous, deciduous or marcescent, tubular, 
campanulate or urceolate; mouth shortly 4—5-lobed. Stamens hypo- 
gynous or very shortly adnate to the corolla-tube, as many or twice 
as many as corolla-lobes; filamentsf ree; anthers dehiscing by ter- 
minal pores. Ovary 4—5-celled (in our species), free; style 1; 
stigma terminal. Ovules indefinite, few or many. Fruit capsular, 
loculicidally dehiscent, pulpy or drupaceous. Seeds albuminous. — 
Shrubs, undershrubs usually wiry, or small trees. Leaves alter- 
nate or whorled, usually persistent, exstipulate. Inflorescence various. 
A considerable Natural Order, very sparingly represented in Africa, 
excepting in the Cape region. 
407. Arbutus Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, with evergreen and coriaceous alternate petio- 
late leaves, and white or flesh-coloured flowers in a terminal 
cluster of racemes or panicles. Bracts and bractlets scaly. Calyx 
