Grias
(from grao, to eat; fruit edible). Anchovy Pear. ORD. Myrtaceae. A genus containing two or three species of tall, hardly branched, stove evergreen trees, natives of tropical America. Flowers white, large; petals four, coriaceous. Leaves very long, oblong, entire. The species are of quick growth, and thrive in a compost of rich sandy loam. Propagated by cuttings of ripe wood, in spring.
G. cauliflora (stem-flowering).* fl. produced in short peduncles from the old stem, not particularly ornamental, but very sweet-scented. Berry ovate, about the size and shape of an alligator's egg, of a brownish-russet colour. l. alternate, lanceolate, spathulate or entire, drooping, glossy green, sometimes upwards of 3ft. long. h. 30ft. to 50ft. West Indies, 1768. (B. M. 5622.) G. zamorensis (Zamoran). l. ovate-lanceolate, 1ft. to 2ft. long. Peru, 1879. A very noble and striking ornamental foliage plant, not yet much grown.