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combination of those of Cinnamon, Nutmeg, and Cloves. 

 It is principally employed as a eondiment in cookery. In 

 medicine it ranks as a worm stomachic carminative. The 

 dose of the powder is from five grains to a scruple. The 

 essential oil and the distilled water, also hold a place in 

 the Pharmacopeia. The latter is selected as a vehicle 

 for purgative medicines, especially rhubarb, the nauseous 

 taste of which, to a certain degree, it conceals. 



V. Grias. 



Calycine tube adhering to the ovary ; limb 

 small, 4-cleft, obtuse. Petals 4, coriaceous. 

 Stamens oo , inserted on a 4-sided disk : fila- 

 ments at the base connate in five rows, the inner 

 ones being the shortest : anthers reniform, mi- 

 nute. Style O • stigma cruciform concealed by 

 the incurved stamens. Drupe ovate, 8-sulcated, 

 crowned with the calyx, with the nut ob- 

 long.— DC. 



Name from y^aivw comedo to eat, in allusion to the edible 

 quality of the fruit. 



1. Grias cauliflora. Jlnchovy-Pear. 



Palmis affinis Malus Persica maxima, caudice non 

 ramoso, foliis longissimis, fructu ex arboris trunco, Shane, 

 III. 123. t. 217.— Calophyllum foliis tripedalibus obovatis, 

 floribus per caulem et ramos sparsis, Browne, 245 — Grias 

 cauliflora Linn. Sp. PL 132.— Swartz, Obs. 215. 



II A B. Wet marshy situations. Near Port-Morant. 



F L. Spring. 



A tree 30-50 feet in height : branches undivided or 

 none. Leaves shortly petiolate, 3-3J feet in length 

 and about 10 inches in breadth at the broadest part, 

 obovato lanceolate, acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, 

 being continued along the petiole till within an inch and 

 a half or two inches of the insertion ; surface glabrous, of 

 a dark green, and nerved ; margin entire and subundul- 

 ated. The flowers are large, white, fragrant, produced 

 from the stem: peduncles very short, many-flowered: 

 pedicels short, crowded, one-flowered. Calyx 4-cleft. 



