Crataeva
(named after Cratevas, a Greek botanist, who lived in the time of Hippocrates). Garlic Pear. ORD. Capparideae. Unarmed stove evergreen shrubs or trees, with terminal cymes or racemes of large flowers, and tri-foliolate leaves. They require a compost of loam, peat, and rotten dung. Cuttings will root freely, if planted in a pot of sand, and placed under a hand glass, in heat.
C. Tapia (Tapia). fl. whitish, on long peduncles, forming loose terminal panicled racemes. fr. as large as an orange, and, when ripe, having a strong scent of garlic, which is communicated to the animals that feed on it. l., leaflets ovate-acuminated, unequal at the base. h. 30ft. to 40ft. Tropical America, &c., 1752.
Other species usually enumerated as being in cultivation are: gynandra, Roxburghii, and tapioides.