232 DECANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Arbutus. 



227. ARBUTUS. Strawberry-tree. Bear- 

 berry. 



Linn. Gen. 220. Jiiss. 160. Fl. Br. 441. Toitrn. <.368. Lam. t.3G6. 



Gcertn. t.b9. 

 Uva ursi. Toitrn. t. 3/0. 



Nat. Orel, see n. 226. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, small, in 5 deep obtuse segments, 

 permanent. Cor. of 1 petal, ovate, rather flattened and 

 transparent at the base; the limb in 5 small, recurved, 

 bluntish segments. Filam. slightly attached to the base 

 of the corolla, and about half its length, awl-shaped, swell- 

 ing in the middle. Anth. incumbent, of 2 oval cells, open- 

 ing by 2 terminal pores, and bearing a pair of short horns, 

 or spurs. Germ, superior, roundish, seated on an orbi- 

 cular ten-dotted receptacle. Style terminal, cylindrical, 

 erect, the length of the corolla. Stigma obtuse. Berry 

 globular, of 5 cells. Seeds small, angular, bony ; in Ar- 

 butus of Tournefort numerous ; in his Uva ursi solitaiy in 

 each cell. 



Trees, or trailing shrubs, with alternate, evergreen, simple, 

 mostly serrated, leaves. Pubescence, if any, bristly. Fl. 

 clustered, white or reddish, drooping. Berries various, 

 black or red, smooth or tuberculated, more or less mealy, 

 not very wholesome. 



1. A. Uncdo. Common Strawberry-tree. 



Stem arboreous. Leaves smooth, bluntly serrated. Pani- 

 cle terminal. Berry with many seeds. 



A. Unedo. Linn. Sp. Fl. 566. Suppl. 238. Willd.v.2. 6\6. Fl. 



Br. 442. Engl. Bot.v. 34. t.2377. 

 Arbutus. Rail Syn. 464. Ger.Em.l496.f. Maith. Valgr. v. ] . 



245. /. Corner. Epit. 168./. Dod. Pempt. 803./. 804. Bauh. 



Hist.v. 1. p. 1.83./. 

 A. folio senato. Bauh. Pin. 460. Mill. Ic. 32. t. 48./. 2. 



On limestone rocks in Ireland. 



About the lake of Kiliarney plentifully. BIr. Crowe. 



Tree. September. 



A bushy tree, of very great size in Crete and the Levant ; the 

 young shoots often red, and rough with glandular hairs. Bark 

 of the main stem reddish-brown, the external layers coming off 

 in thin flakes. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, unequally serrated, 

 bright green, veiny, rigid, on hairy foofstalks, without stipulas. 

 Clusters paniclcd, bent downwards, smooth. Bracieas oblong,>^ 



