A West Indian fruit, pickled and eaten like the mango; also the tree (Grias cauliflora) which bears it.
1725. Sloane, Nat. Hist. Jamaica, tab. 207. fig. 12 Anchove pear tree.
1866. A. Black, in Treas. Bot., 552. The Anchovy Pear of Jamaica has long been cultivated in plant stoves for the sake of its magnificent foliage.
