Myristica. DIOECIA MONADELPHIA. 845 
flowers of some other species of Myristica which he received 
from the Isle of France, for the true nutmeg, Consequently 
the sort they have been long cultivating there, with so much 
care, is not the real Banda nutmeg, which the Dutch so 
long and so effectually monopolized. For I can scarcely think 
it possible that any Botanist could consider the thick, firmly 
consolidated filament of the male flowers, to be composed 
of from six to twelve smaller, partible filaments, joined in 
one bundle, for there is not the smallest rudiment of any small- 
er filaments connecting the linear anthers to the column, or fi- 
lament, in the centre; nor are the anthers themselves united, 
scarcely even the two lobes which compose the pairs, as I 
have called them. 
The foregoing description, and accompanying drawing, 
are taken from many, healthy growing trees in the Honour- 
able Company’s Botanic garden as well as from numerous 
specimens, preserved in spirits, and otherwise collected, and 
sent from Great Banda Neyra, Pulo-ay, and the Molucca 
Islands, while they were in the possession of the English from 
1796 till 1802, At Bencoolen, where this tree was introduc- 
ed in 1798, they have grown with the greatest luxuriance ; 
for in five years they had arrived at from ten to fourteen 
feet in height. In October and November }802, two hun-— 
dred and forty-seven trees out of about six hundred, blessom- 
ed. About half of these were male, the rest female, and 
ripened their frait in February and March 1803, In the 
Botanic garden at Calcutta, where the young trees are 
about the same age, the most luxuriant ones are from six to ten 
feet high, and in April 1803 three male trees only blossom- 
ed for the first time, At Prince of Wales’ Island, where by 
far the most extensive plantations are formed, they are in a 
middle state between Bencoolen and Bengal, but do not by 
any means thrive so well as in Sumatra, where they are per- 
fectly at hdtue, in every respect, and earlier than in the Mo- 
7 Islands. : 
