1120 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
Society, and in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges, are 12 ft. high, after 
having been 10 years planted. 
Variely. / 
¢ 2 A.h.2 Milleri(A. Milleri Mayes in West of England Journ. of Science 
and Lit., Jan. 1835; and Gard. Mag., xi. p. 259.) was raised from 
seed in the Bristol Nursery, from the scarlet-flowered variety of 
A. U‘nedo and A. Andrachne. The flowers are of a delicate pink, 
the leaves are large, and the plant vigorous. 
¢ 3. A. ANvRA’cune L. The Andrachne Arbutus, or Strawberry Tree. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 566.; Ehret Act. Angl, 57. p. 114. t.6.; Ker Bot. Reg., t-113.; Sims 
S rah ef intesrit lia fost fy Theophrasti Clus. Hist., 1. p. 48.; Andrachne Park. 
"Thedtr., 1490. f. rs This is the Adrachné of Theophrastus ; and it is called Adrachla in modern 
alee Ehret Act. Angl., 57. t.6.; Bot. Reg.,t.113.; Bot. Mag., t.2024.; Park. Theatr., 
1490. f. 2.; and the plate in our last Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves oblong, bluntish, entire in some, a little serrated in 
others, glabrous. Panicles terminal, erect, clothed with viscid down. Flow- 
ers greenish white. Fruit like that of A. U‘nedo. (Don’s Mill. ui. p. 384.) 
A native of Greece, Asia Minor, and Tauria. 
Varieties, 
Tournefort enumerates three varieties, which he observed 
in the Levant: — 
1. With serrated leaves ; 
2. With a large oblong fruit ; 
3. With large compressed fruit: but there is only the 
following variety, which is probably the first of those 
mentioned by Tournefort, in British nurseries ; — 
@ A. A. 2 serratifolia (A. serratifolia Nois. ; the serrated-leaved Arbutus, 
as shown in Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 580., and our fig. 921.; Don’s Mill, 3. 
p. $34.) has the leaves serrated, and narrower than those of the spe- 
cies. The flowers are yellowish, and disposed in terminal clusters. 
It is cultivated in British gardens; but it is not known when, or 
from what country, it was introduced. 921 
Description. This species differs from the common arbutus in haying much 
longer leaves, smooth, coriaceous, and shining, and but slightly, if at all, ser- 
rated, and polished ; but the outer bark cracks, and peels off in very thin papery 
layers, annually. By this feature alone it is readily distinguished from the 
common arbutus. The flowers resemble those of the common sort; but the 
fruit is oval, with flat seeds ; whereas in the common sort the seeds are 
pointed and angular. The plants, when young, are somewhat tender; but, if 
kept in pots till 2 ft. or 3 ft. high before they are planted out, they will endure 
the winters in the neighbourhood of London without any protection; and 
will grow nearly as rapidly as the common arbutus, becoming eventually 
much larger and finer trees. 
Geography. The A’rbutus Andrachne is most abundant in the Levant. 
It is found in the Isle of Candia, and in various islands of the Archipelago, 
in the neighbourhood of Damascus, Aleppo and Antioch; also on Mount 
Olympus, about Smyrna, and in various other ports of Syria. It is found in 
some places in the north of Africa. 
History. The tree abounds in Greece, and is mentioned by Theophrastus 
and other writers under the name of Adrachne. Pausanias says that the 
Adrachne produces the best fruit on Mount Helicon. In the Nouveau Du 
Hamel, it is stated that the translators of Pausanias have confounded two 
names, by which the Greeks designated two plants quite different: Adrachne, 
which is the species of A’rbutus now before us; and Andrachne, the Portulaca of 
the Latins, and the modern Verénica Beccabinga. Clusius, J. Bauhin, Ray, 
and Tournefort recognised this difference, and spelt the word accordingly ; but 
Linnzus paid no attention to it. Theophrastus says that the Adrachne is a 
tree of which the leaves at the extremities of the branches are always green ; 

