NAT. ORDER. 



Bicornes. 



ARBUTUS UNEDO. . STRAWBERRY TREE. 



0,ass X. Decandria. Order I. Monogynia. ■* 



Gen. Char. Ca/ya:,five-parled, obtuse. C^ra//a, monopetalous, ovate 

 flattish at the base. Divisions, obtuse, revolute, small. Sta- 

 mens, ten, subulate, slender at the base. Anthers, bifid and 

 nodding. ~^\|, 



A^e. Char, Pistillum, subglobular germ, on a receptacle marked with 

 ten dots. Style, thickish and obtuse. Pericarpium a roundish 

 five-celled berry. Seeds, small and bony. 



The common Arbictus or Strawberry Tree, rises to the height of 

 twenty or thirty feet in its native situation, but rarely with an 

 upright stem ; when cultivated it rarely attains the height of twenty- 

 five feet. It usually puts out branches very near the ground ; the 

 leaves keep on all the winter, and are thrust off in the .spring by 

 new ones, so that it is always clothed with leaves ; the berries con- 

 tain a large number of seeds, and are roughened with the tuburcules 

 of the seeds. There are several varieties, some with large oval 

 fruit, with round fruit, with double flowers, and with scarlet flowers, 

 there are also tlie curled-leaved or cut-leaved, the broad-leaved, and 

 the narrow-leaved. 



Arbutus andrachne. Oriental Strawberry Tree. This species 

 very much resembles the first, except the bark, which is not quite so 

 rough ; some of the leaves have no serratures, and the panicle is 

 upright and viscid, and far from being smooth. It grows in its 

 native state to a middling sized tree, with irregular branches ; the 

 leaves are smooth, large, and somewhat like those of the Bay Tree, 

 but not quite so long ; the flowers are like those of the common Arbu- 



Yol. iv.— 75. 



