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combination of those of Cinnamon, Nutmeg, and Cloves. 
It is principally employed as a condiment 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 
lor 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 ygcavu comedo to eat, in allusion to the edible 
quality of the fruit. 
1. Grias cauliflora. Anchovy- Pear. 
Palmis aflinis Malus Persica maxima, caudice non 
ramoso, foliis longissimis, fructu ex arboris trunco, Sloane , 
III. 123. t. 217. — Calophyllum foliis tripedalibus obovatis, 
lloribus per caulem et ramos sparsis, Browne , 215— Grias 
cauliflora Linn. Sp. PI. 732. — Swartz, Ohs. 215. 
II AB. Wet marshy situations. Near Port-Morant. 
F L. Spring. 
A tree 30-50 feet in height : branches undivided or 
none. Leaves shortly petiolate, 3-3^ 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 tw r o 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-clelt. 
