Tab. 5622. 

 gejas cauliflora. 



Anchovy Pear. 



Nat. Ord. MYETACEiE. — Monadelphia Polyandbia. 



Gen. Char. Cahjcis tubus turbinatus, supra ovarium baud productus, 

 limbus cupulatus, demum in lobos 2-1 irregulariter ruptus. Pctahi I. 

 rarius 5, pateutia. Stamina oo, disco crasso subcupulato oc-seriatim in- 

 serta, interiora minora, filamentis crassis in globum conniventibus invo- 

 lutis; antherae parvae, loculis distinctis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. 

 Ovarium inferum, 4-loculare ; stylus v. breviter conicus, stigmatibus 4 

 cruciatim radiantibus • ovula in loculis 2-4, pendnla. Fructus carnosus, 

 ovoideus, calycis limbo coronatus. Semen saepius 1, pendulum, testa crassa. 

 — Arbores excelsce Americana?. Folia alterna, ad apices ramulorum con- 

 ferta, sape longissima, penninervia, interferrima v. obscure sinuato-dentata, 

 epunctata. Flores in trunco ramisaue breviter pedicellati et subsessiles, 

 r asciculati. 



Geias caulijlora ,• foliis lanceolatis acuminatis recurvis glaberrimis, pedun- 

 culis brevibus crassismultinoris,noribus pallide flavis, petalis oblongis 

 obtusis. 



Geias cauliflora. Linn. Sp. PL 732. DC. Prodr. v. 3. p. 296. Griseb. Fl. 

 Brit. W. Ind. p. 243. 



Anchovy Pear. Shane Hist. Jam. v. 2, p. 122. t. 217. / 1, 2. Browr.e, Jam. 

 p. 245. Lunan, Sort. Jam. v. 1. p. 19. 



This is a plant of considerable interest, in a horticultural 

 and perhaps also in an economic point of new. In the first 

 place, it is one of the most striking and easily managed of all 

 those stately, palm-like tropical dicotyledonous trees that are 

 so greatly admired, and are essential for the decoration of 

 every stove ; and in the next place, as the " Anchovy Pear,'" 

 it has long been, according to some authorities, in esteem as 

 a West Indian fruit. The latter is a large, brown, fleshy 

 drupe, like that of the Mammee-apple, which was, according 

 to Sloane, pickled and eaten by the Spaniards in lieu of 

 mangoes, and was sent as a great rarity to Spain. Browne, 

 in his ' Natural History of Jamaica,' says nothing of the value 

 of the fruit, but M'Fadyen, who represents the English taste 

 ja^uaet 1st, 1867. 



