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filaments, Femaxe. Calyx as in the male.  Corol none. 
Germ superior, one-celled, one-seeded ; attachment inferior. 
Drupe superior, fleshy, two-valved, nut one-seeded, covered 
with a multifid aril, commonly called mace.’ Embryo inferi- 
or, and furnished with an ample ruminated perisperm. 
M. moschata, Willd. iv. 869. 
Leaves oblong. Male flowers several on simple and com- 
pound axillary racemes, Female flowers solitary. Calyxes 
pitcher-shaped. 
M. officinalis. Linn, Syst. 493. Suppl. 265. Gert. i. t. 41. 
M. Moschata. Woodville’s Medical Botany, 363. t, 134. 
Nux myristica, Rumph, Amb. ii. 14, t. 4, 
Jay-phalu, the Sanscrit name of the nutmeg, and Jati the 
mace, zat 
Jaga-phul, the Bengalee name of the nutmeg, and Jatri the 
mace, 
Jouz-bewa of the Persians. 
A native of the Moluccas, and other Islands in their vicini= 
ty, bearing male and female on different trees; and there 
blossoming and bearing fruit the whole year. In some in- 
stances I have observed them to be monoicous, — 
‘Trunk straight up to the top of the tree, asin the pines. 
Bark smooth, and of a greenish asb, or dirty olive colour. 
Branches in regular equi-distant verticels, nearly horizontal, 
with their extremities often drooping. Leaves alternate, 
sub-bifarious, short-petioled, oblong, entire, smooth on both 
sides, but paler underneath, when bruised faintly aromatic ; 
from three to six inches Jong, and from one to two and a half 
broad, Mae. Racemes axillary, often two-cleft near the 
apex, with the divisions spreading. Flowers numerous on as- 
cending, clavate pedicels, nearly as long as the peduncles, 
small, inodorous,and yellow. Bractes of the pedicels solitary, 
minute, one-flowered, caducous, those of the four lower ones 
also solitary, but larger, fleshy, more permanent, and embrac- 
ing two thirds of the base of the calyx. Calyx pitcher-shaped, 
‘tiouthi three-toothed. Corol none. Filament single, resting 
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