336 STRAWBERRY-TREE, ETC. 



[The still rarer M. ccerulea has the parts of the flowers 

 in fives.] 



Parts of the flower in fives and multiples 

 of 5; i.e. pentamerous throughout, anthers 

 with awns. 



l~~l Fruit capsular. 



Andromeda polifolia, L. Marsh Andromeda. A rare 

 prostrate sub-shrub, with oblong-lanceolate, evergreen, re- 

 volute leaves, glaucous beneath. 



Flowers like rbutus, but the fruit capsular with 

 loculicidal dehiscence. Flowers homogamous, with hidden 

 honey. 



OO Fruit fleshy and berry -like. 



Tall shrub. Several ovules in each cell 

 of the ovary. Fruit a warted red berry. 



Arbutus Unedo, L. Strawberry-tree. Evergreen 

 shrub, or small tree, with red-brown stem, leathery, 

 shining, oblong-lanceolate leaves, and fruits curiously 

 marked and coloured in superficial resemblance to a 

 strawberry. Bee-flowers. 



Flowers in dense, pendent, terminal panicles, each 

 flower subtended by an oblong bract. Calyx 5-lobed. 

 Corolla white or rosy, pellucid, inodorous, 5 10 mm. long ; 

 urceolate with reflexed teeth, deciduous. Stamens 10, 

 hypogynous, as is also the disc ; filaments flattened below, 

 hairy. Anthers opening by pores, compressed, dorsifixed, 

 with two reflexed terminal appendages. Pollen in tetra- 

 hedral groups of 4, with pores on the corners. Fruit red, 

 stalked, pendent, globoid, as large as a cherry or strawberry, 

 warted, acid-sweet; ripening the second year, so that all 

 stages may occur simultaneously. 



The floral formula is K 5 <7 (5) A 5 + 5 (5), the stamens 

 ob-diplostemonous. 



