NAT. ORDER. 
Bicornes. 
ARBUTUS UNEDO, STRAWBERRY TREE, 
Class X. Decandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gm. Char, Calyx ^ five-parted, obtuse. Corolla^ monopetalous, ovate 
flattish at the base. Divisions, obtuse, revolute, small. Sta- 
mens^ ten, subulate, slender at the base. Anthers, bifid and 
nodding. 
Spe. 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 Arbutus 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 w^ith 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 the 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- 
Vol. iv.— 75. 
