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Tribe L— AHBUTE^E. 
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Corolla deciduous. Fruit a berry, superior. 
GENUS 77.— A KOTOSTAPHYLOS. Adam. 
Calyx free from the ovary, 5- or 4-partite. Corolla hypogy- 
nous, deciduous, monopetalous, globose- or ovate - urceolate or 
urceolate-bellsbaped, with as many teeth as there are divisions 
in the calyx. Stamens 10 or 8 ; filaments short ; anthers bent 
down, appearing as if affixed by the apex, each one with 2 pores 
and 2 awns close to the point of attachment. Emit a berry-like 
drupe, containing 5 bony 1-seeded pyrenes or stones ; surface of 
the drupe smooth. 
Small shrubs or undershrubs, with alternate obovate entire or 
serrate evergreen or deciduous leaves, and pink or white flowers 
in short terminal racemes. Inflorescence-buds scaly. 
The derivation of the name of this genus of plants is from op/croc (arldos), a 
bear, and a-cKjwXr) (staphule), a grape. 
SPECJES I— AECTOSTAPHYLOS ALPINA. Spreng. 
Plate DCCCLXXX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLXVII. Fig. 4. 
Arbutus alpina; Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2030. 
Stems procumbent. Shoots of the year glabrous. Leaves 
rather thin, deciduous, wedgeshaped-obovate or -oblanceolate, nar- 
rowed into indistinct winged petioles, sub-acute, doubly crenate- 
serrate in the apical half, glabrous, sparingly ciliated with bristly 
hairs, shining-green, with the veins impressed above, slightly 
glaucous and with the veins prominent and forming coarse network 
beneath. Elower drooping, 2 or 3 together at the summit of the 
branches of the preceding year, appearing with the young leaves 
or before them. Pedicels short, longer than the bracts. Bracts 
scarious, oval, boat-shaped, and ciliated. Corolla broadly ovate- 
urceolate, with 4< or 5 short reflcxed obtuse teeth, which are hairy 
within. Appendages of the anthers very short. Berry smooth, 
bluish-black, slightly-shining. 
On heaths and barren places on mountains. Hare. Near the 
summit of the mountain to the South of Bradoonie, Clova, Eor- 
farshire ; on Ben Nevis, near the Lake; in the Isle of Skye ; in 
